2 Thessalonians 3:12

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11For we hear that some walk about among you in a disorderly manner, doing no work, but being busybodies.

13And you, brethren, should not be weary in well-doing.

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Cross References

Luke 11:3Give us, day by day, the bread sufficient for our support;

1 Thessalonians 4:1Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you, by our Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to walk and please God, you would abound more and more.

2 Thessalonians 3:8nor did we eat any one’s bread for nothing: but worked with labor and toil, night and day, that we might not burden any one of you;

Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 3:7-16

Cautions to the Disorderly. ( a. d. 52.) 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. 7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; 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: 9 Not because we have not power, but… Read the whole commentary →

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