[annie laurie]

I believe that Judith Anne is referring to James 2:14-17.

14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

[smvoice]

Okay. James said it and not Paul. Paul too was a compassionate man but he did say "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any man would not work, neither should he eat." 2 Thess. 3:10.

"For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread." 2 Thess. 3:11,12.

There are truly poor, and there are lazy poor, who have enough time on their hands to stir up trouble and dissent, and yet not enough time to make their own living. Discernment helps.