1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

also keep up your ambition to live quietly, to practice attending to your own business and to work with your own hands, as we directed you,

2 Thessalonians 3:8-12

I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you.

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Summary

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

Bible References

Laboureth

1 Thessalonians 4:11
also keep up your ambition to live quietly, to practice attending to your own business and to work with your own hands, as we directed you,
2 Thessalonians 3:8
I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you.