2 Thessalonians 3:10

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
  • Prov 21:25 : 25 The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
  • Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: 33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; 34 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
  • 1 Thess 3:4 : 4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
  • Luke 24:44 : 44 He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."
  • John 16:4 : 4 But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
  • Acts 20:18 : 18 When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

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    11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.

    12 Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

    13 But you, brothers, don't be weary in doing well.

    14 If any man doesn't obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

  • 2 Thess 3:6-9
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    6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

    7 For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn't behave ourselves rebelliously among you,

    8 neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

    9 not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

  • 1 Thess 4:11-12
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    11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

    12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

  • 1 Cor 9:6-7
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    6 Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

    7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

  • Matt 10:10
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    10 Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

  • 1 Thess 2:9
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    9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

  • Eph 4:28
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    28 Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

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    7 Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to house.

  • Titus 3:14
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    14 Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

  • 1 Tim 5:8
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    8 But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

  • 1 Cor 4:11-12
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    11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

    12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

  • 1 Tim 5:18
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    18 For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The laborer is worthy of his wages."

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

  • 1 Cor 11:34
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    34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

  • 1 Cor 9:14
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    14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

  • 1 Cor 9:4
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    4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?

  • Gal 6:9
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    9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.

  • Jas 2:15-16
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    15 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

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    8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

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    11 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

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    11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

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    11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

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    20 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

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    6 The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

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    16 that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

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    34 You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

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    6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

  • 1 Cor 5:11
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    11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.

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    6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

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    9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

  • Prov 16:26
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    26 The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; for his mouth urges him on.

  • 1 Thess 4:6
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    6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

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    9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

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    4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

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    15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

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    9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

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    6 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.

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    9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work,