2 Thessalonians 3:10
Then, too, while we were with you, we insisted on this to you: that if anyone was not willing to work, neither should he eat.
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Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return.”
Proverbs 20:4Because of the cold, the lazy one was not willing to plough. Therefore, in the summer, he will beg, and it will not be given to him.
Proverbs 24:30I passed by the field of a lazy man, and by the vineyard of a foolish man,
John 16:4But these things I have spoken to you, so that, when the hour for these things will have arrived, you may remember that I told you.
1 Thessalonians 3:4For even while we were with you, we predicted to you that we would suffer tribulations, even as it has happened, and as you know.
2 Thessalonians 2:5Do you not recall that, when I was still 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 →