2 Thessalonians 3:12 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Now we charge and exhort such persons [as ministers in Him exhorting those] in the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) that they work in quietness and earn their own food and other necessities.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Common English Bible

¹² By the Lord Jesus Christ, we command and encourage such people to work quietly and put their own food on the table.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Now we charge those who act in this way, and we beg them in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work in silence and eat their own bread.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² 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.

2 Thessalonians 3:12 Cross References

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

Luke 11:3

Give us day by day our daily bread.

Ephesians 4:28

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

1 Thessalonians 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.

1 Thessalonians 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;

2 Thessalonians 3:8

neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

1 Timothy 2:2

for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.