2 Thessalonians 3:10

Paul recalls his clear rule given in person: if anyone refuses to work, he should not eat. Willful idleness has no claim on the community's support.

Cross-references · 10

• Gen 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
• Prov 13:4The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
• 1 Th 4:11and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
• Prov 20:4The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
• Prov 21:25The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.
• Prov 24:30–34I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
• 1 Th 3:4Indeed, when we were with you, we kept warning you that we would suffer persecution; and as you know, it has come to pass.
• John 16:4But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
• Luke 24:44Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
• Acts 20:18When they came to him, he said, “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.

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