2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”
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2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”
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2 Thessalonians 3:11
For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.
2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion and not after the tradition which they received from us.
Genesis 3:19
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
Ephesians 4:28
Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
1 Thessalonians 4:11
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,
1 Thessalonians 4:12
that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
Proverbs 16:26
The appetite of the laboring man labors for him, for his mouth urges him on.
Proverbs 14:23
In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
John 6:27
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
Judges 19:16
Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.
Psalms 104:23
Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.
Psalms 128:2
For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
Ecclesiastes 1:13
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
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2 Thessalonians 3:7
For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,
2 Thessalonians 3:8
neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.
2 Thessalonians 3:9
This was not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
1 Corinthians 4:12
We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
Acts 18:3
and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
Acts 20:35
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
2 Corinthians 11:9
When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
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Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
Proverbs 24:30
I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.
Proverbs 24:31
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
Proverbs 24:32
Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
Proverbs 24:33
a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
Proverbs 24:34
so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.
Romans 12:11
not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,
Proverbs 6:11
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
Proverbs 10:4
He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 20:13
Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Proverbs 23:21
for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
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2 Thessalonians 3:13
But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.
1 Timothy 5:13
Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
Exodus 20:15
“You shall not steal.
Proverbs 31:27
She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.
1 Corinthians 7:10
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
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Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Ezekiel 3:17
“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
1 Thessalonians 4:2
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
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Matthew 6:25
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:42
Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
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John 9:4
I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
John 5:17
But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”
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John 16:4
But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
2 Thessalonians 2:5
Don’t you remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things?
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Acts 15:36
After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
2 Thessalonians 2:17
comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
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