Verse 10

For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 3:19 : 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
• Prov 13:4 : 4 The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.
• Prov 20:4 : 4 The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.
• Prov 21:25 : 25 The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.
• Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense; 31 And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it. 33 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: 34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
• 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;
• 1 Thess 3:4 : 4 And when we were with you, we said to you that trouble was before us; and so it came about, as you see.
• Luke 24:44 : 44 And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect.
• John 16:4 : 4 I have said these things to you so that when the time comes, what I have said may come to your mind. I did not say them to you at the first, because then I was still with you.
• Acts 20:18 : 18 And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,