2 Thessalonians 3:12
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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

we.

2 Thessalonians 3:6 And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they have received of us.

that with.

Genesis 49:14,15 Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders. . . .

Proverbs 17:1 Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.

Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind.

Ephesians 4:28 He that stole, let him now steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.

1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your own business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want nothing of any man's.

1 Timothy 2:2 For kings and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.

eat.

2 Thessalonians 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.

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

Context
Warning against Irresponsibility
11For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly: working not at all, but curiously meddling. 12Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread. 13But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing.…
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 4:1
For the rest therefore, brethren, pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.

1 Thessalonians 4:11
And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your own business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want nothing of any man's.

2 Thessalonians 3:11
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