For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."
Paul worked hard at manual labor and set an example before those to whom he ministered. People who refuse to work because they are religious may call it grace but according to Paul, it is not grace, but rather, DISGRACE. In Paul’s churches, no work, no bread and that is the way it should be for able bodied men. The man who is too lazy to work should not be fed. In 1 Timothy 5:8 Paul declared, "...If any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel (Green 298).