2 Thessalonians 3:10

God's Word

While we were with you, we gave you the order: “Whoever doesn’t want to work shouldn’t be allowed to eat.”

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow, you will produce food to eat until you return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and you will return to dust.”

Proverbs 13:4

A lazy person craves food and there is none, but the appetite of hard-working people is satisfied.

Proverbs 20:4

A lazy person does not plow in the fall. He looks for something in the harvest but finds nothing.

Proverbs 21:25

The desire of a lazy person will kill him because his hands refuse to work.

Luke 24:44

Then he said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you. I told you that everything written about me in Moses’ Teachings, the Prophets, and the Psalms had to come true.”

John 16:4

But I’ve told you this so that when it happens you’ll remember what I’ve told you. I didn’t tell you this at first, because I was with you.

Acts 20:18

When they were with him, he said to them, “You know how I spent all my time with you from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.

1 Thessalonians 3:4

In fact, when we were with you, we told you ahead of time that we were going to suffer persecution. And as you know, that’s what happened.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

Also, make it your goal to live quietly, do your work, and earn your own living, as we ordered you.

2 Thessalonians 2:5

Don’t you remember that I told you about these things when I was still with you?