Verse 10

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If anyone is unwilling to work, they should not eat.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard does not plow in the winter; at harvest time he looks for something, but finds nothing.
  • Prov 21:25 : 25 The desire of the lazy person kills them, for their hands refuse to work.
  • Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one lacking sense. 31 Thorns had grown all over it, the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 I observed and took it to heart; I saw it and received instruction. 33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, 34 and poverty will come upon you like a robber and need like an armed man.
  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 And to make it your ambition to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
  • 1 Thess 3:4 : 4 For indeed, when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we would suffer tribulation, just as it happened, and as you know.
  • Luke 24:44 : 44 He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms."
  • John 16:4 : 4 I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you.
  • Acts 20:18 : 18 When they arrived, he said to them, 'You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot in Asia.'