Proverbs 9:12

12 aIf you are wise, you are wise for yourself;
if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

Proverbs 14:23

23In all toil there is profit,
but mere talk btends only to poverty.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

7 cAll the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.
Hebrew filled

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

11and to aspire eto live quietly, and fto mind your own affairs, and gto work with your hands, as we instructed you, 12so that you may hwalk properly before ioutsiders and be dependent on no one.

2 Thessalonians 3:8-12

8nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but jwith toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. 9It was knot because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves lan example to imitate. 10For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: mIf anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. 11For we hear that some among you nwalk in idleness, not busy at work, but obusybodies. 12Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.
Greek to eat their own bread


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