For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For
The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.
I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
Indeed, when we were with you, we kept warning you that we would suffer persecution; and as you know, it has come to pas
But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not
Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is
When they came to him, he said, “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the