2 Thessalonians 3:10

New International Reader's Version

Even when we were with you, we gave you a rule. We said, “Anyone who won’t work shouldn’t be allowed to eat.”

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

You will have to work hard and sweat a lot to produce the food you eat. You were made out of the ground. You will return to it when you die. You are dust, and you will return to dust.”

Proverbs 13:4

People who refuse to work want things and get nothing. But the desires of people who work hard are completely satisfied.

Proverbs 20:4

Anyone who refuses to work doesn’t plow in the right season. When they look for a crop at harvest time, they don’t find it.

Proverbs 21:25

Some people will die while they are still hungry. That’s because their hands refuse to work.

Luke 24:44

Jesus said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you. Everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms must come true.”

John 16:4

Why have I told you this? So that when their time comes, you will remember that I warned you about them. I didn’t tell you this from the beginning because I was with you.

Acts 20:18

When they arrived, he spoke to them. “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you,” he said. “From the first day I came into Asia Minor,

1 Thessalonians 3:4

In fact, when we were with you, here is what we kept telling you. We were telling you that our enemies would make us suffer. As you know very well, it has turned out that way.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

And do everything you can to live a quiet life. You should mind your own business. And work with your hands, just as we told you to.

2 Thessalonians 2:5

Don’t you remember? When I was with you, I used to tell you these things.