2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now such we enjoin and exhort in [the] Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread.

Darby Translation

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 [there are] some walking among you disorderly, not working at all, but busybodies.

13But *ye*, brethren, do not faint in well-doing.

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Cross References

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

Luke 11:3give us our needed bread for each day;

1 Thessalonians 4:1For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

2 Thessalonians 3:8nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to 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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