and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
Cross References
Proverbs 17:14To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
Acts 18:3and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.
Ephesians 4:28He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.
2 Thessalonians 3:10For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: "If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat."
2 Thessalonians 3:12We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.
1 Peter 4:15Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.
Treasury of Scripture
And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
that.
Proverbs 17:1
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Lamentations 3:26
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
study.
Romans 15:20
Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:
2 Corinthians 5:9
Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
and to do.
Mark 13:34
For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Luke 12:42,43
And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? …
Romans 12:4-8
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: …
to work.
Acts 20:35
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Romans 12:11
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
1 Corinthians 4:12
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
