2 Thessalonians 3:10

Bible in Basic English 1965

For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Proverbs 13:4

The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

Proverbs 20:4

The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

Proverbs 21:25

The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

Luke 24:44

And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect.

John 16:4

I have said these things to you so that when the time comes, what I have said may come to your mind. I did not say them to you at the first, because then I was still with you.

Acts 20:18

And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,

1 Thessalonians 3:4

And when we were with you, we said to you that trouble was before us; and so it came about, as you see.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;

2 Thessalonians 2:5

Have you no memory of what I said when I was with you, giving you word of these things?