Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work in quietness and to earn their own living.
to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you;
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need.
we did not eat any one's bread without paying, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.
Finally, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more.
Give us each day our daily bread;
Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.
Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way.