1 Thessalonians 4:11

and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your [own] hands, even as we charged you,

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

In Context

10For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

12that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.

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Cross References

Proverbs 17:1Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting [with] strife.

Lamentations 3:26It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.

Luke 12:42And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give the measure of corn in season?

Acts 20:35I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring [we] ought to come in aid of the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Romans 12:11as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.

1 Corinthians 4:12and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer [it];

Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 4:10-13

Brotherly Love. ( a. d. 51.) 9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; 11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. In these words… Read the whole commentary →

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