2 Thessalonians 3:12
New International Version
Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat.

New Living Translation
We command such people and urge them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and work to earn their own living.

English Standard Version
Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

Berean Standard Bible
We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.

Berean Literal Bible
Now we command and exhort to such by our Lord Jesus Christ so that, working with quietness, they may eat their own bread.

King James Bible
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

New King James Version
Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.

New American Standard Bible
Now we command and exhort such persons in the Lord Jesus Christ to work peacefully and eat their own bread.

NASB 1995
Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread.

NASB 1977
Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that working with quietness, they eat their own bread.

Amplified Bible
Now such people we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and work quietly and earn their own food and other necessities [supporting themselves instead of depending on the hospitality of others].

Christian Standard Bible
Now we command and exhort such people by the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and provide for themselves.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now we command and exhort such people by the Lord Jesus Christ that quietly working, they may eat their own food.

American Standard Version
Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But such we command and beseech them in our Lord Yeshua The Messiah, that they shall work quietly and eat their bread.

Contemporary English Version
So, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, we ask and beg these people to settle down and start working for a living.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now we charge them that are such, and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.

English Revised Version
Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
We order and encourage such people by the Lord Jesus Christ to pay attention to their own work so they can support themselves.

Good News Translation
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we command these people and warn them to lead orderly lives and work to earn their own living.

International Standard Version
We order and encourage such people by the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

Literal Standard Version
and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that working with quietness, they may eat their own bread;

Majority Standard Bible
We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.

New American Bible
Such people we instruct and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and to eat their own food.

NET Bible
Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat.

New Revised Standard Version
Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

New Heart English Bible
Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Weymouth New Testament
To 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.

World English Bible
Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

Young's Literal Translation
and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Warning against Irresponsibility
11Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies. 12 We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living. 13But as for you, brothers, do not grow weary in well-doing.…

Cross References
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.

1 Thessalonians 4:11
and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.


Treasury of Scripture

Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

we.

2 Thessalonians 3:6
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.

that with.

Genesis 49:14,15
Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: …

Proverbs 17:1
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

eat.

2 Thessalonians 3:8
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:

Luke 11:3
Give us day by day our daily bread.

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2 Thessalonians 3
1. Paul craves their prayers for himself;
3. testifies what confidence he has in them;
5. makes request to God in their behalf;
6. gives them various precepts, especially to shun idleness, and ill company;
16. and then concludes with prayer and salutation.














(12) We command.--The fourth time the severe word is used in this very chapter. Perhaps "we order" might convey the meaning still more sharply. But immediately, lest severity provoke rebellion, he adds, "and we beseech," alleging also the grounds on which he rests his appeal: "in our Lord"--i.e., "on the strength of our union in the Body of Christ." (Comp. 1Thessalonians 4:1.)

That with quietness they work.--The opposites of bustling, and of idleness.

Eat their own bread.--Not other people's. This passage tempts us to take the marginal version in 1Thessalonians 4:12 : "have need of no man." The phrase is not fatal to the idea of there being a communism established. The bread would still be "their own"--i.e., they would have a right to it, supposing it had been earned for the community by hard work: otherwise, communism or no communism, the bread was stolen. The commentators aptly compare a rabbinical saying:" When a man eats his own bread he is composed and tranquil in mind; but if he be eating the bread of his parents or children, much more that of strangers, his mind is less tranquil."

Verse 12. - Now them that are such we command and exhort by (or, as the best manuscripts read, in) our Lord Jesus Christ; in him, as the source of authority; "In his Name." That with quietness. In contrast to being busybodies, with calmness of spirit, freedom from excitement. They work, and eat their own bread; not the bread of others, but their own, for which they have laboured and which they have earned. They would thus be independent of the liberality and generosity of others. (For similar exhortations, see 1 Thessalonians 4:11; Ephesians 4:28.)

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
We command
παραγγέλλομεν (parangellomen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 3853: To notify, command, charge, entreat solemnly. From para and the base of aggelos; to transmit a message, i.e. to enjoin.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

urge
παρακαλοῦμεν (parakaloumen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 3870: From para and kaleo; to call near, i.e. Invite, invoke.

such [people]
τοιούτοις (toioutois)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5108: (including the other inflections); from toi and houtos; truly this, i.e. Of this sort (to denote character or individuality).

by
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

our Lord
Κυρίῳ (Kyriō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2962: Lord, master, sir; the Lord. From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e. controller; by implication, Master.

Jesus
Ἰησοῦ (Iēsou)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

Christ
Χριστῷ (Christō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.

to
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

begin working
ἐργαζόμενοι (ergazomenoi)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2038: To work, trade, perform, do, practice, commit, acquire by labor.

quietly
ἡσυχίας (hēsychias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 2271: Quietness, stillness, silence. Feminine of hesuchios; stillness, i.e. Desistance from bustle or language.

to earn their own living.
ἐσθίωσιν (esthiōsin)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2068: Strengthened for a primary edo; used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by phago; to eat.


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