2 Thessalonians 3:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

We also gave you the rule that if you don't work, you don't eat.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil.”

Proverbs 13:4

No matter how much you want, laziness won't help a bit, but hard work will reward you with more than enough.

Proverbs 20:4

If you are too lazy to plough, don't expect a harvest.

Proverbs 21:25

If you want too much and are too lazy to work, it could be fatal.

Luke 24:44

Jesus said to them, “While I was still with you, I told you that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Books of the Prophets, and in the Psalms had to happen.”

John 16:4

I am saying this to you now, so that when the time comes, you will remember what I have said. I was with you at the first, and so I didn't tell you these things.

Acts 20:18

When they got there, he said: You know everything I did during the time I was with you when I first came to Asia.

1 Thessalonians 3:4

because when we were with you, we told you this would happen. And we did suffer, as you well know.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

Try your best to live quietly, to mind your own business, and to work hard, just as we taught you to do.

2 Thessalonians 2:5

Don't you remember that I told you this while I was still with you?