8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Thess 4:11 — And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
• 2Thess 3:8 — Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
• 3John 1:11 — Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
• Eph 4:28 — Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
• Gen 3:19 — In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
• Jas 2:20 — But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
• Job 31:5 — If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
• Judg 9:4 — And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
• Prov 1:10 — My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
• Prov 4:14 — Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
• Prov 6:32 — But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
• Prov 7:7 — And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
• Prov 9:6 — Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
• Prov 13:4 — The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
• Prov 13:20 — He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
• Prov 13:23 — Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
• Prov 14:4 — Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
• Prov 14:23 — In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
• Prov 20:13 — Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
• Prov 24:30 — I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
• Prov 28:19 — He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
• Prov 28:19 — He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
• Ps 26:4 — I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
• Ps 128:2 — For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
• Titus 1:10 — For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: