2 Thessalonians 3:10

10. Not work… eat He is scarce a Christian, whatever his rank, who, possessed of the ability, does not earn his own living. It is a sad account he has to give at the judgment-seat who has not made the world better by his having lived in it. And he who does so earns his living, and the final reward, whether he has worked with his brain or his hands. St. Paul’s converts were doubtless mostly artisans, and he set the example of working with his hands, not because his preaching was not a most arduous and powerful work, but in order to make the idlers among them work at all. Paul’s maxim is based on the primeval law of Genesis 3:19, that “eat bread” should depend on “the sweat of thy face.” And hence saith an old Rabbi: “Whoso laboureth not on the sixth day what shall he eat on the Sabbath?”