2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
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In Context
11For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.
13But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing.
Cross References
Proverbs 17:1Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife.
Luke 11:3Give us day by day our daily bread.
1 Thessalonians 4:1Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye would abound more and more.
2 Thessalonians 3:8neither did we eat bread for nought at any man’s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden 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 →