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2 Thessalonians 3:12

2 Thessalonians chapter 3 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.11For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.

v.12This passage

v.13But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Thessalonians 3:8

    neither did we eat bread for nought at any man’s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

  • Ecclesiastes 4:6

    Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:1

    Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more.

  • Ephesians 4:28

    Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:11

    and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

  • Luke 11:3

    Give us day by day our daily bread.