2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we used to give you this command: "If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat."

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."

Proverbs 13:4

The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he looks for the crop but has nothing.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.

Proverbs 21:25

What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands refuse to work.

1 Thessalonians 3:4

For in fact when we were with you, we were telling you in advance that we would suffer affliction, and so it has happened, as you well know.

Proverbs 24:30-34

I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one who lacks wisdom.

Luke 24:44

Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

John 16:4

But I have told you these things so that when their time 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 20:18

When they arrived, he said to them, "You yourselves know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot in the province of Asia,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

Bible References

That

Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."
Proverbs 13:4
The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.
Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he looks for the crop but has nothing.
Proverbs 21:25
What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands refuse to work.
Proverbs 24:30
I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one who lacks wisdom.
1 Thessalonians 4:11
to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.

General references

Exodus 5:17
But Pharaoh replied, "You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying, 'Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.'
Psalm 104:23
Men then go out to do their work, and labor away until evening.
1 Thessalonians 4:2
For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

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