2 Thessalonians 3:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: anyone unwilling to work should not eat.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ For while we were yet with you, we gave you this rule and charge: If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Even when we were with you we were giving you this command: “If anyone doesn’t want to work, they shouldn’t eat.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ Then, too, while we were with you, we insisted on this to you: that if anyone was not willing to work, neither should he eat.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ For also when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Proverbs 13:4

The appetite of the lazy craves and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 20:4

The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.

Proverbs 21:25

The craving of the lazy person is fatal, for lazy hands refuse to labor.

Luke 24:44

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”

John 16:4

But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

Acts 20:18

When they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,

1 Thessalonians 3:4

In fact, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer persecution; so it turned out, as you know.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we directed you,

2 Thessalonians 2:5

Do you not remember that I told you these things when I was still with you?