2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even while we were with you, we gave you this instruction: "Anyone who will not work should not eat."
Treated in 5 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- Rise Up, Men of God ·
By the Sweat of Your Brow cites 2 Thessalonians 3:10–12
…we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10–12). This is not harshness against the poor. The Bible commands us to care for the widow…
- Practical Religion ·
The World cites 2 Thess. iii. 10
…is a remedy against temptation. "If any man will not work, neither shall he eat." (2 Thess. iii. 10.) To give up any business of life, which is not necessarily sinful, to the wicked and the…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 4, Chapter 16 — Pædobaptism cites 2 Thess. 3:10
…of food, on the presence that the apostle permits none to eat but those who labour (2 Thess. 3:10), would he not deserve to be scouted by all? Why so? Because that which was said of a…
- Faithful With Little ·
Made to Work, Called to Keep cites 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12
…Christ, to go about their work quietly and to eat bread they have earned themselves.” (2 Thessalonians 3:10-12) That is not cruelty to people who cannot work. The same Bible commands generous care for…
- The Life of Trust ·
Stewardship cites 2 Thess. iii. 10-12
…will concerning us. This is plain from the following passages: 1 Thess. iv. 11, 12; 2 Thess. iii. 10-12; Eph. iv. 28. It is quite true that, in general, the Lord provides the necessaries of…