What Does the Bible Say About No Work No Eat?

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

2 Thessalonians 3:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one. And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things that we command. May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. ...

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Exodus 34:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Revelation 11:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there,

1 John 3:8-9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

1 John 3:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

1 John 1:8-10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

2 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

2 Timothy 3:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.

1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

2 Corinthians 3:7-9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses' face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.

Romans 8:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 3:10-18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.” ...

Romans 2:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Mark 11:1-33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’” And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. And some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” ...

Matthew 5:45 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Amos 1:1-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. And he said: “The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.” Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. I will break the gate-bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir,” says the Lord. ...

Numbers 14:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’

21 Bible Verses about No Work No Eat

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 3:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 34:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 11:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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Matthew 5:45 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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21 Bible Verses about No Work No Eat

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2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 3:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 34:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 11:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 3:8-9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 3:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 1:8-10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Corinthians 3:7-9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 8:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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Mark 11:1-33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 5:45 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Amos 1:1-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Numbers 14:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote