2 Thessalonians 3:10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: anyone unwilling to work should not eat.
Read full chapter
2 Thessalonians 3:10
New International Version
10 For even when we were with you,(A) we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work(B) shall not eat.”
Genesis 3:19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
19 By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.”(A)
Genesis 3:19
New International Version
Proverbs 20:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 The lazy person does not plow in season;
harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.(A)
Proverbs 20:4
New International Version
1 Thessalonians 4:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we directed you,(A)
Read full chapter
1 Thessalonians 4:11
New International Version
11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands,(A) just as we told you,
Proverbs 13:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 The appetite of the lazy craves and gets nothing,
while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied.(A)
Proverbs 13:4
New International Version
4 A sluggard’s appetite is never filled,(A)
but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
Proverbs 24:30-34
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
30 I passed by the field of one who was lazy,
by the vineyard of a stupid person,(A)
31 and see, it was all overgrown with thorns;
the ground was covered with nettles,
and its stone wall was broken down.
32 Then I saw and considered it;
I looked and received instruction.
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,(B)
34 and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want, like an armed warrior.
Proverbs 24:30-34
New International Version
30 I went past the field of a sluggard,(A)
past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
31 thorns had come up everywhere,
the ground was covered with weeds,
and the stone wall was in ruins.
32 I applied my heart to what I observed
and learned a lesson from what I saw:
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest(B)—
34 and poverty will come on you like a thief
and scarcity like an armed man.(C)
Proverbs 21:25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
25 The craving of the lazy person is fatal,
for lazy hands refuse to labor.(A)
Proverbs 21:25
New International Version
25 The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him,(A)
because his hands refuse to work.
1 Thessalonians 3:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 In fact, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer persecution; so it turned out, as you know.
Read full chapter
1 Thessalonians 3:4
New International Version
4 In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know.(A)
Acts 20:18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 When they came to him, he said to them:
“You yourselves know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,(A)
Read full chapter
Acts 20:18
New International Version
18 When they arrived, he said to them: “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you,(A) from the first day I came into the province of Asia.(B)
John 16:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them.
The Work of the Spirit
“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
Read full chapter
John 16:4
New International Version
4 I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember(A) that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,(B)
Luke 24:44
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”(A)
Read full chapterNew Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.