2 Thessalonians 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. In writing to his step-brother Johnston, who had requested a loan of money, Abraham Lincoln says: "The great defect in your conduct is, not that you are lazy, but that you are an idler. This habit of uselessly wasting time is the whole difficulty, and it is vastly important to you and to your children that you should break the habit. Go to work for the best money wages you can get, and for every dollar that you will get for your own labour I will give you another one. If you will do this you will soon be out of debt, and what is better you will have gained a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again." (H. O. Mackay.) Parallel Verses KJV: For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. |
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