1 Thessalonians 4:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

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  • Eph 4:28 : 28 whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.
  • 1 Pet 3:4 : 4 but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,
  • 1 Pet 4:15 : 15 for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;
  • Titus 3:14 : 14 and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
  • Eccl 4:6 : 6 `Better `is' a handful `with' quietness, than two handfuls `with' labour and vexation of spirit.'
  • 1 Tim 2:2 : 2 for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,
  • Prov 17:1 : 1 Better `is' a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.
  • 2 Thess 3:7-9 : 7 for yourselves have known how it behoveth `you' to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you; 8 nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you; 9 not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us; 10 for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat, 11 for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working, 12 and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;
  • Lam 3:26 : 26 Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.
  • Luke 12:42-43 : 42 And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure? 43 Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;
  • Acts 18:3 : 3 and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft;
  • Acts 20:35 : 35 all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth `us' to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of 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 as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office, 5 so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another. 6 And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- `According to the proportion of faith!' 7 or ministration -- `In the ministration!' or he who is teaching -- `In the teaching!' 8 or he who is exhorting -- `In the exhortation!' he who is sharing -- `In simplicity!' he who is leading -- `In diligence?' he who is doing kindness -- `In cheerfulness.'
  • Rom 12:11 : 11 in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;
  • Rom 15:20 : 20 and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named -- that upon another's foundation I might not build --
  • 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 and labour, working with `our' own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;
  • 2 Cor 5:9 : 9 Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,
  • Mark 13:34 : 34 as a man who is gone abroad, having left his house, and given to his servants the authority, and to each one his work, did command also the porter that he may watch;
  • Col 3:22-24 : 22 The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God; 23 and all, whatever ye may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men, 24 having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve;
  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 and at the same time also, they learn `to be' idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;
  • Titus 2:4-9 : 4 that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of `their' husbands, lovers of `their' children, 5 sober, pure, keepers of `their own' houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of. 6 The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded; 7 concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility, 8 discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you. 9 Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying, 10 not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.
  • 1 Pet 4:10-11 : 10 each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; 11 if any one doth speak -- `as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- `as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.

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    4and we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that the things that we command you ye both do and will do;

    5and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.

    6And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

    7for yourselves have known how it behoveth `you' to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;

    8nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

    9not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

    10for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

    11for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

    12and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

    13and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

    14and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,

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    9And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

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    14These things remind `them' of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

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    11wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

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    1As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

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    12and labour, working with `our' own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

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    16that ye also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with `us' and labouring;

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    15of these things be careful; in these things be, that thy advancement may be manifest in all things;

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    15for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;

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    34and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;

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    17comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

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    11even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

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    11Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,

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    34Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

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    40let all things be done decently and in order.

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    19So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

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    58so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.