2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now we charge them that are such, and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly, working not at all, but curiously meddling.

13But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

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Cross References

Proverbs 17:1Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.

Luke 11:3Give us this day our daily bread.

1 Thessalonians 4:1For the rest therefore, brethren, we pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us, how you ought to walk, and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.

2 Thessalonians 3:8Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing, but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any 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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