2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
KJV
τοῖς δὲ τοιούτοις παραγγέλλομεν καὶ παρακαλοῦμεν ἐν κυρίῳ Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ ἵνα μετὰ ἡσυχίας ἐργαζόμενοι τὸν ἑαυτῶν ἄρτον ἐσθίωσιν.
Greek NT
Iis autem, qui ejusmodi sunt, denuntiemus, et obsecramus in Domino Jesu Christo, ut cum silentio operantes, suum panem manducent.
Vulgate
Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
ASV
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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In the original Greek
17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἐν κυρίῳ Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ — SBLGNT
- ἐν κυρίῳ Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2830"Our bread": the Father who gives us life cannot not but give us the nourishment life requires - all appropriate goods and blessings, both material and spiritual. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus insists on the filial trust that cooperates with our Father's providence.115 He is not inviting us to idleness,116 but wants to relieve us from nagging worry and preoccupation. Such i…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 7:20 — Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
- 1Cor 14:3 — But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
- 1Pet 3:4 — But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
- 1Thess 2:11 — As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
- 1Thess 4:1 — Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
- 1Thess 4:11 — And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
- 2Thess 3:4 — And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
- 2Thess 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:
- 2Thess 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:
- Eccl 4:6 — Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
- Eph 4:28 — Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
- Gen 49:14 — Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
- Isa 4:1 — And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
- Luke 11:3 — Give us day by day our daily bread.
- Matt 6:11 — Give us this day our daily bread.
- Prov 17:1 — Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
- Ruth 2:3 — And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.