1 Thessalonians 4:11

World English Bible (2000)

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;

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  • Eph 4:28 : 28 Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
  • 1 Pet 3:4 : 4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.
  • 1 Pet 4:15 : 15 For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men's matters.
  • Titus 3:14 : 14 Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
  • Eccl 4:6 : 6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
  • 1 Tim 2:2 : 2 for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
  • Prov 17:1 : 1 Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.
  • 2 Thess 3:7-9 : 7 For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn't behave ourselves rebelliously among you, 8 neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you; 9 not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us. 10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat." 11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies. 12 Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
  • Lam 3:26 : 26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
  • Luke 12:42-43 : 42 The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times? 43 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
  • Acts 18:3 : 3 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
  • Acts 20:35 : 35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
  • Rom 12:4-8 : 4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function, 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; 7 or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching; 8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
  • Rom 12:11 : 11 not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
  • Rom 15:20 : 20 yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.
  • 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
  • 2 Cor 5:9 : 9 Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
  • Mark 13:34 : 34 "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
  • Col 3:22-24 : 22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. 23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
  • Titus 2:4-9 : 4 that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed. 6 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded; 7 in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility, 8 and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us. 9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting; 10 not stealing, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
  • 1 Pet 4:10-11 : 10 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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