2 Thessalonians 3:10

The Scriptures 1998

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone does not wish to work, neither let him eat.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

“By the sweat of your face you are to eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you return.”

Proverbs 13:4

The being of the lazy one craves, but has not; While the being of the hard workers are enriched.

Proverbs 20:4

The lazy one does not plough after the autumn; At harvest time he inquires – there is none!

Proverbs 21:25

The desire of the lazy man slays him, For his hands refused to work.

Luke 24:44

And He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all have to be filled that were written in the Torah of Mosheh and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.”

John 16:4

“But I have said these words to you, so that when the hour comes you remember that I told them to you. And these words I did not say to you at the beginning, for I was with you.

Acts 20:18

And when they had come to him, he said to them, “You know, from the first day that I came to Asia, how I was with you all the time,

1 Thessalonians 3:4

For indeed, we did inform you beforehand, when we were with, you that we would suffer pressure, and so it came to be, as you know.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and to make it your ambition to live peaceably, and to attend to your own, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

2 Thessalonians 2:5

Do you not remember that I told you this while I was still with you?