For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat." We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy; they are busybodies. Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the bread they eat.

2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 NIV

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The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns:
but the way of the righteous is made plain.

Proverbs 15:19 KJV

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Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one's labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward. Furthermore, as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:18,19 NASB

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Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones.
Learn from their ways and be wise!

Even though they have no prince, governor,
or ruler to make them work,
they labor hard all summer,
gathering food for the winter.

Proverbs 6:6-8 NLT

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Thanks be unto God for His wonderful gift:
Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God
is the object of our faith; the only faith
that saves is faith in Him.