1 Thessalonians 4:11
English Standard Version Anglicised
11 and to aspire (A)to live quietly, and (B)to mind your own affairs, and (C)to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
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1 Thessalonians 4:11
New International Version
11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands,(A) just as we told you,
1 Thessalonians 4:11
King James Version
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;
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2 Thessalonians 3:8
English Standard Version Anglicised
8 nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but (A)with toil and labour we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.
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2 Thessalonians 3:8
New International Version
8 nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked(A) night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
2 Thessalonians 3:8
King James Version
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:
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2 Thessalonians 3:11-12
English Standard Version Anglicised
11 For we hear that some among you (A)walk in idleness, not busy at work, but (B)busybodies. 12 Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.[a]
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- 2 Thessalonians 3:12 Greek eat their own bread
2 Thessalonians 3:11-12
New International Version
11 We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies.(A) 12 Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ(B) to settle down and earn the food they eat.(C)
2 Thessalonians 3:11-12
King James Version
11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
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