2 Thessalonians 3:10

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

For even when we were with you, we gave you this order: If any person does not [want to] work, he should not [get to] eat.

Cross References

Luke 24:44

Then Jesus said to the apostles, “These are the words that I told you while I was still with you, [when I said] that everything written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms about me needed to be fulfilled.”

John 16:4

But I have told you these things so that, when the time comes [for people to do such things], you will remember that I had warned you. I did not tell you them at the beginning [of my ministry] because I was with you [i.e., to protect you from persecution].

Acts 20:18

And when they arrived, he said to them, “You [men] know the kind of life I lived when I was with you, from the [very] first day I set foot in [the province of] Asia.

1 Thessalonians 3:4

For even when we were with you, we warned you that we were going to be persecuted, and as you know, it has turned out that way.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

[We also urge you to] make it your aim to live a quiet life, and to attend to your own business matters, and to work with your hands, as we urged you. [Note: Possibly this exhortation was directed toward the tendency of some people there to neglect ordinary responsibilities in view of an imminent return of Christ].

2 Thessalonians 2:5

Do you not remember that I used to tell you these things when I was still with you?