I have heard it said that a lazy person cannot be a christian, and the same idea seems to be supported in my text.
"But if any provide not for his own." Religion benefits those who possess it, by regulating their appetite for temporal things, as well as giving them a relish for spiritual ones.

While we are in love with sin, we labor hard to enjoy its pleasures.

How industriously do wicked men labor for what they can eat, drink and wear.

And shall a christian be less active to secure for himself the necessaries of life ?--he would prove himself indeed to be worse than the infidel.

But we have other wants to be supplied, beside those of the body.