2 Thessalonians 3:10 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁰ For when we were with you we gave you this charge, that he who would not work should not eat.

¹⁹ By the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat thy bread until thou return into the earth out of which thou wast taken; for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return."

⁴ Every sluggard is employed in wishing: but the hands of the diligent, in procuring.

⁴ Though a sluggard is reproached he is not ashamed: and the same is the case with him who borroweth corn in harvest.

²⁵ Wishing killeth the slothful; for his hands do not chuse to labour.

³⁰ A fool is like a field, and a man void of understanding, like a vineyard; ³¹ if thou lettest them alone, they will be overrun with weeds and grass, and become useless, and their stone fences will be thrown down. ³² I have at length repented and looked about, with a view to chuse instruction. ³³ I am dozing a little: just taking a short nap; just infolding my breast with my hands. ³⁴ If such indeed be thy conduct; poverty will come upon thee like a traveller and want like a swift courier.

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, This is what I told you while I was yet with you, That all the things written concerning me in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, must needs be accomplished.

⁴ But I have spoken these things to you, that, when that time cometh, you may remember that I mentioned them to you. I did not tell you them from the beginning, because I was with you.

¹⁸ And when they came to him, he said to them, You know how from my first coming into Asia, I have been with you all the time,

⁴ For when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we should soon be afflicted, as it hath actually come to pass, and you know;

¹¹ and to make it your ambition to live quietly, and to mind your own business, and work with your own hands, as we charged you;