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

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

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.”

You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.”

The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

The slacker craves, yet has nothing, but the diligent is fully satisfied.

to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

A slacker’s craving will kill him because his hands refuse to work.

I went by the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking sense.Thistles had come up everywhere, weeds covered the ground, and the stone wall was ruined.I saw, and took it to heart; I looked, and received instruction:a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest,and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit.

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes you may remember I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

In fact, when we were with you, we told you previously that we were going to suffer persecution, and as you know, it happened.

And when they came to him, he said to them:“ You know, from the first day I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time—

Then He told them,“ These are My words that I spoke to you while I was still with you— that everything written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”