2 Thessalonians 3:10
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10 Even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “Those unwilling to work will not get to eat.”
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Genesis 3:19
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19 By the sweat of your brow
will you have food to eat
until you return to the ground
from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
and to dust you will return.”
Proverbs 20:4
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4 Those too lazy to plow in the right season
will have no food at the harvest.
1 Thessalonians 4:11
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11 Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before.
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Proverbs 13:4
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4 Lazy people want much but get little,
but those who work hard will prosper.
Proverbs 21:25
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25 Despite their desires, the lazy will come to ruin,
for their hands refuse to work.
Proverbs 24:30-34
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30 I walked by the field of a lazy person,
the vineyard of one with no common sense.
31 I saw that it was overgrown with nettles.
It was covered with weeds,
and its walls were broken down.
32 Then, as I looked and thought about it,
I learned this lesson:
33 A little extra sleep, a little more slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest—
34 then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit;
scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.
1 Thessalonians 3:4
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4 Even while we were with you, we warned you that troubles would soon come—and they did, as you well know.
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John 16:4
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4 Yes, I’m telling you these things now, so that when they happen, you will remember my warning. I didn’t tell you earlier because I was going to be with you for a while longer.
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Acts 20:18
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18 When they arrived he declared, “You know that from the day I set foot in the province of Asia until now
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Luke 24:44
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44 Then he said, “When I was with you before, I told you that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms must be fulfilled.”
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