2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you we commanded you this, that if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9Not because we have no right, but that we might give ourselves an example to you, in order to imitate us.

11For we hear of some who walk among you disorderly, not working at all, but being busybodies.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

Proverbs 20:4The sluggard will not plow because of the winter. Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs 24:30I went by the field of the sluggard, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.

John 16:4But I have told you these things, so that when the hour comes, ye may remember that I told you of them. But I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

1 Thessalonians 3:4For also when we were with you we foretold you that we were going to be oppressed, just as it also happened, and ye know.

2 Thessalonians 2:5Do ye not remember 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 →

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