2Th2Ts 2 Thessalonians2 Tessalonicesi, chaptercapitolo Second Epistle to the ThessaloniansSeconda Lettera ai Tessalonicesi, chaptercapitolo 3

We command you to disassociate yourselves from every fellow believer who refuses to work.

2 Thessalonians 3:6-11

Specifically, we did not eat anyone’s food if we did not pay that person for it. Instead, we worked very hard ◄to support ourselves/to earn the money to buy what we needed►. We worked hard [DOU] during the day and during the night, in order that we would not have to depend on any of you to supply what we needed.