2 Thessalonians 3:10

Tree of Life Version

For even when we were with you, we would give you this order: if anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

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

Proverbs 13:4

The slacker’s soul craves, yet has nothing, but the diligent soul will be satisfied.

Proverbs 20:4

A slacker will not plow in season, so at harvest he looks but finds nothing.

Proverbs 21:25

A slacker’s craving will kill him, because his hands refuse to work.

Luke 24:44

Then He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you—everything written concerning Me in the Torah of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.

John 16:4

But I have spoken these things to you so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.”

Acts 20:18

When they came to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know how I behaved among you all the time from the first day I set foot in Asia,

1 Thessalonians 3:4

For even when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer persecution— just as has happened, as you know.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, just as we directed you—

2 Thessalonians 2:5

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