Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
The word "bread" (artos) refers to "food of any kind." Thayer comments, "take food supplied by one, 2 Thessalonians 3:8; ...to eat the food which one has procured for himself by his own labor, 2 Thessalonians 3:12" (Thayer 76-2-746).