1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

and that you aspire to be quiet, and to prosecute your own employments, and work with your hands, as we proclaimed unto you;

2 Thessalonians 3:8-12

neither did we eat bread with any one gratuitously, but with labor and toil, night and day working, that we might not burden any one of you:

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He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

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Laboureth

1 Thessalonians 4:11
and that you aspire to be quiet, and to prosecute your own employments, and work with your hands, as we proclaimed unto you;
2 Thessalonians 3:8
neither did we eat bread with any one gratuitously, but with labor and toil, night and day working, that we might not burden any one of you: