For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."
I. It injures the recipient.  Idleness is a sin; and some of the worst trouble they had in Thessalonica came from that source.  The indolent are tempted to many vices.  The independence of the recipient is destroyed and he becomes something less than a man through habitual and constant dependence upon others for support.