2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now such persons, we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus the Messiah, that in quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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, there are some among you who walk wickedly, and do nothing except vain things.

13And my brethren, let it not be wearisome to you, to do what is good.

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Cross References

Luke 11:3give us daily the bread we need;

1 Thessalonians 4:1Wherefore, my brethren, I entreat you, and beseech you by our Lord Jesus, that, as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God, so ye would make progress more and more.

2 Thessalonians 3:8Neither did we eat bread gratuitously from any of you; but, with toil and weariness, we labored by night and by day, that we might not be burdensome 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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