1 Thessalonians 4:11

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

Young's Literal Translation

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

10for ye do it also to all the brethren who [are] in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

12that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

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Cross References

Proverbs 17:1Better [is] a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.

Lamentations 3:26Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.

Luke 12:42And the Lord said, 'Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?

Acts 20:35all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth [us] to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

Romans 12:11in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

1 Corinthians 4:12and labour, working with [our] own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

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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