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Selected Verse: 2 Thessalonians 3:12 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Th 3:12 |
King James |
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
by--The oldest manuscripts read, "IN the Lord Jesus." So the Greek, Th1 4:1, implying the sphere wherein such conduct is appropriate and consistent. "We exhort you thus, as ministers IN Christ, exhorting our people IN Christ."
with quietness--quiet industry; laying aside restless, bustling, intermeddling officiousness (Th2 3:11).
their own--bread earned by themselves, not another's bread (Th2 3:8). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus ... - A more solemn command and appeal to do what he had before enjoined on all of them; Th1 4:11; see the notes on that verse. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
With quietness - work
See on study to be quiet, Th1 4:11. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Work quietly - Letting the concerns of other people alone. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
With quietness they work - Μετα ἡσυχιας· With silence; leaving their tale-bearing and officious intermeddling. Less noise and more work!
That - they work, and eat their own bread - Their own bread, because earned by their own honest industry. What a degrading thing to live on the bounty or mercy of another, while a man is able to acquire his own livelihood! He who can submit to this has lost the spirit of independence; and has in him a beggar's heart, and is capable of nothing but base and beggarly actions. Witness the great mass of the people of England, who by their dependence on the poor rates are, from being laborious, independent, and respect able, become idle, profligate, and knavish; the propagators and perpetrators of crime; a discredit to the nation, and a curse to society. The apostle's command is a cure for such; and the Church of God should discountenance such, and disown them. |
8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
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;
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;