2 Thessalonians 3:8-10

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁸ Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing, but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.

⁹ Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.

¹⁰ For also when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.