1 Thessalonians 4:11
“And that ye studie to be quiet, and to doe your owne businesse, and to worke with your owne hands, (as wee commanded you:)”
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1 Thessalonians 4:11 Context
9But as touching brotherly loue, ye need not that I write vnto you: for yee your selues are taught of God to loue one an other. 10And in deed ye doe it towards all the brethren, which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more: 11And that ye studie to be quiet, and to doe your owne businesse, and to worke with your owne hands, (as wee commanded you:) 12That ye may walke honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may haue lacke of nothing. 13But I would not haue you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleepe, that ye sorrow not, euen as others which haue no hope.
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Other Translations for 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;
- King James Version
and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you,
- New American Standard Version (1995)
and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;
- American Standard Version (1901)
And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;
- Basic English Bible
and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your [own] hands, even as we charged you,
- Darby Bible
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
- Webster's Bible
and to vie with one another in eagerness for peace, every one minding his own business and working with his hands, as we ordered you to do:
- Weymouth Bible
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
- World English Bible
and that ye do youre nede, and `ye worche with youre hoondis, as we han comaundid to you; and that ye wandre onestli to hem that ben with outforth, and that of no mannus ye desir ony thing.
- Wycliffe Bible
and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for 1 Thessalonians 4:11
4:11 That ye study - Literally, that ye be ambitious: an ambition worthy a Christian. To work with your hands - Not a needless caution; for temporal concerns are often a cross to them who are newly filled with the love of God.
People's Bible Notes for 1 Thessalonians 4:11
1Th 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business. The Greeks were naturally a restless people, often given to intermeddling in the business of other people. And to work with your own hands, as we commanded you. A Christian must not be an idler. A "loafer" cannot show forth the life of Christ. We gather, elsewhere, that some brethren at Thessalonica thought the time so short until the Lord would come that work was unnecessary.