2 Thessalonians 3:11

• §2830Article 3 · The Seven PetitionsRead at vatican.va

  “He is not inviting us to idleness,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 2 Thess 3:6-13.

Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Of the Work of Monks Chapter 4

  “Now them that are such we charge and beseech in our Lord Jesus Christ, that with silence they work, and eat their own bread.”” — editor's note: 2 Thess. iii. 6–12

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, On Idolatry Chapter 5

  “Again, they say the same apostle has left a precept, according to his own example, “That each one work with his own hands for a living.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 11; 2 Thess. iii. 6–12.

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• Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 14

  “…for your investigation, this very question: Whether there were in the first Epistle others, too, who “wholly saddened” the apostle by “acting disorderly,” and “were wholly saddened” by him, through incurring (his) “rebuke,” according to the sense of the second Epistle; of whom some particular one may in that…” — editor's note: Comp. 2 Thess. iii. 6, 11.

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John Cassian

• John Cassian, The Institutes X.21Book X

  “Those also whom he notes as disorderly and rebellious, from these he charges those who are earnest to separate themselves: “That ye withdraw yourselves,” says he, “from every brother that walketh disorderly and not according to the tradition which they received from us.”” — editor's note: 2 Thess. iii. 11, 6; 1 Thess. iv. 11.

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• Exodus 20:4

  Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.

• 2 Kings 18:4

  Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.

• 1 Corinthians 7:20

  Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.

• 1 Corinthians 9:1

  Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 4.

• 1 Corinthians 9:2

  Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 4.

• 1 Corinthians 9:3

  Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 4.

• 1 Corinthians 9:4

  Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 4.

• 1 Corinthians 9:5

  Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 4.

• 1 Corinthians 9:6

  Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 4.

• 1 Corinthians 9:7

  Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 4.

• 1 Corinthians 10:6

  Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.

• 1 Corinthians 10:11

  Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:11

  Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5 and 1 other place.