Even while we were with you, we gave you this command:“ Those unwilling to work will not get to eat.”

我们在你们那里的时候，曾吩咐你们说，若有人不肯做工，就不可吃饭。

我们在你们那里的时候曾吩咐你们，说若有人不肯做工，就不可吃饭。

我们在你们那里的时候曾吩咐你们，说若有人不肯做工，就不可吃饭。

我们在你们那里的时候，曾吩咐过你们：不肯工作的人没有资格吃饭。

我们在你们那里的时候，曾经吩咐过你们，如果有人不肯作工，就不可吃饭。

事实上，我们还在你们那里的时候，一直吩咐你们这一点：如果有人不肯做工，就不应当吃饭。

我們在你們那裏的時候，曾吩咐你們說，若有人不肯做工，就不可吃飯。

我們在你們那裏的時候曾吩咐你們，說若有人不肯做工，就不可吃飯。

我們在你們那裏的時候曾吩咐你們，說若有人不肯做工，就不可吃飯。

我們在你們那裡的時候，曾吩咐過你們：不肯工作的人沒有資格吃飯。

我們在你們那裡的時候，曾經吩咐過你們，如果有人不肯作工，就不可吃飯。

我們在你們那裏的時候、也屢次囑咐你們說：『人若不肯作工，就不該喫飯。』

事實上，我們還在你們那裡的時候，一直吩咐你們這一點：如果有人不肯做工，就不應當吃飯。

昔偕爾時、即以此命爾云、不願操作者、則食之、

我昔在爾中命爾云、人不操作、勿予之食、

我在爾中之時、曾命爾云、人不願操作、則不得食、

故當時吾儕曾予爾以明訓曰：『不勞無食。』

For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule:“ The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

Even when we were with you, we gave you a rule. We said,“ Anyone who won’t work shouldn’t be allowed to eat.”

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

In fact, when we were with you, this is what we commanded you:“ If anyone isn’t willing to work, he should not eat.”

For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

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

In fact, when we were with you, this is what we commanded you:“ If anyone isn’t willing to work, he should not eat.”

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

For even when we were with you, we used to give you this command:“ If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat.”

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this:“ If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”

Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.

Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper.

Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before.

Despite their desires, the lazy will come to ruin, for their hands refuse to work.

I walked by the field of a lazy person, the vineyard of one with no common sense.I saw that it was overgrown with nettles. It was covered with weeds, and its walls were broken down.Then, as I looked and thought about it, I learned this lesson:A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.

Yes, I’m telling you these things now, so that when they happen, you will remember my warning. I didn’t tell you earlier because I was going to be with you for a while longer.

Even while we were with you, we warned you that troubles would soon come— and they did, as you well know.

When they arrived he declared,“ You know that from the day I set foot in the province of Asia until now

Then he said,“ When I was with you before, I told you that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms must be fulfilled.”