1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

and to make it your aim to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we charged you;

2 Thessalonians 3:8-12

nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you;

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Summary

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

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Laboureth

1 Thessalonians 4:11
and to make it your aim to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we charged you;
2 Thessalonians 3:8
nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you;