2 Thessalonians 3:10

For also when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.

11For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly, working not at all, but curiously meddling.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Proverbs 20:4Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.

Proverbs 24:30I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man:

John 16:4But these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you of them.

1 Thessalonians 3:4For even when we were with you, we foretold you that we should suffer tribulations, as also it is come to pass, and you know.

2 Thessalonians 2:5Remember you 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 →

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