2 Thessalonians 3:12

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Cross References

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.

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.

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.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

For the rest therefore, brethren, we 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.

Luke 11:3

Give us this day our daily bread.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

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

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.

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.