2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
King James Version
In Context
9Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Proverbs 20:4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs 24:30I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
John 16:4But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
1 Thessalonians 3:4For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
2 Thessalonians 2:5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 3:7-16
Cautions to the Disorderly. ( a. d. 52.) 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. 7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; 8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: 9 Not because we have not power, but… Read the whole commentary →