2 Thessalonians 3:12

Revised Version 1885

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

Cross References

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, Than an house full of feasting with strife.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Better is an handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and striving after wind.

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 labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye 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 hands, even as we charged you;

2 Thessalonians 3:8

neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labour and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

1 Timothy 2:2

for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.