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2 Thessalonians 3:10

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For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

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  1. 2 Thessalonians 3:8

    Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

  2. 2 Thessalonians 3:9

    Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

  3. 2 Thessalonians 3:11

    For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

  4. 2 Thessalonians 3:12

    Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.