1 Thessalonians 4:11

Also, that you endeavor to live quietly and to mind your own business, and to work with your hands (as I charged you).

Montgomery New Testament

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

10As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this yet more.

12So that your conduct may be seemly toward those that are without, and that you may not need help from any man.

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Cross References

Luke 12:42The Lord answered. "Who then is that faithful steward, the wise man whom his Lord will put in charge of the rations in due time?

Acts 20:35"In all things I have set you an example, how that so toiling, you ought to help the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

Romans 12:11In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.

1 Corinthians 4:12Homeless men, we toil, working with our own hands.

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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