²⁶ The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him `thereto'.

⁷ All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

¹² If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself; And if thou scoffest, thou alone shalt bear it.

²³ In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips `tendeth' only to penury.

¹¹ and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

¹² that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

⁸ neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

⁹ not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves and ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

¹¹ For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.

¹² Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.