2 Thessalonians 3:10
When we were with you, we commanded you, “The one who is unwilling to work must not eat.”
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In Context
11For we hear that some walk idly among you. They do not work but are instead meddlers.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, 1 until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. 1 For dust you are, and to dust you will return.”
Proverbs 20:4The lazy person does not plow in autumn; 1 he seeks a crop at harvest time but will have nothing. 1
Proverbs 24:30I went by the field of a lazy man, 1 past the vineyard of the man having no sense. 1
John 16:4I have spoken these things to you so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you about these things in the beginning, because I was with you.
1 Thessalonians 3:4Truly, when we were with you, we told you in advance that we were about to suffer affliction, and that happened, as you know.
2 Thessalonians 2:5Do you not remember that when I was 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 →