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2 Thessalonians 3:10
2 Thessalonians 3:10 is verse 10 of 2 Thessalonians chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”
King James Version
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
World English Bible
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”
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2 Thessalonians 3:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
8 nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
9 Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.
10 For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”
11 Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.
12 We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Luke 24:44Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to 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 16:4But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
Acts 20:18When they came to him, he said, “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Proverbs 13:4The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
Proverbs 20:4The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
Proverbs 21:25The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.
Proverbs 24:30I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
Proverbs 24:31Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.
Proverbs 24:32I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:
Proverbs 24:33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
Proverbs 24:34and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
1 Thessalonians 4:11and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.