2 Thessalonians 3:11

For we hear that there are some of you who live disorderly lives and are mere idle busybodies.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

In Context

10For even when we were with you, we laid down this rule for you: "If a man does not choose to work, neither shall he eat."

12To persons of that sort our injunction--and our command by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ--is that they are to work quietly and eat their own honestly-earned bread.

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Cross References

2 Thessalonians 3:6But, by the authority of the Lord, we command you, brethren, to stand aloof from every brother whose life is disorderly and not in accordance with the teaching which all received from us.

1 Peter 4:15But let not one of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evil-doer, or as a spy upon other people's business.

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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