²⁶ A labouring man hath laboured for himself, For his mouth hath caused `him' to bend over it.

⁷ All the labour of man `is' for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.

¹² If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned -- thyself bearest `it'.

²³ In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips `is' only to want.

¹¹ and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

¹² that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

⁸ nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

⁹ not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

¹⁰ for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

¹¹ for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

¹² and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;