2 Thessalonians 3:12
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Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.

1 Thessalonians 4:1
For the rest therefore, brethren, pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.

1 Thessalonians 4:11
And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your own business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want nothing of any man's.

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Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.

we.

2 Thessalonians 3:6 And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they have received of us.

that with.

Genesis 49:14,15 Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders. . . .

Proverbs 17:1 Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.

Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind.

Ephesians 4:28 He that stole, let him now steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.

1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your own business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want nothing of any man's.

1 Timothy 2:2 For kings and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.

eat.

2 Thessalonians 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.

Luke 11:3 Give us this day our daily bread.

Context
Warning against Irresponsibility
11For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly: working not at all, but curiously meddling. 12Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread. 13But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing.…
Lexicon
We command
παραγγέλλομεν (parangellomen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's Greek 3853: To notify, command, charge, entreat solemnly. From para and the base of aggelos; to transmit a message, i.e. to enjoin.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

urge
παρακαλοῦμεν (parakaloumen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's Greek 3870: From para and kaleo; to call near, i.e. Invite, invoke.

such [people]
τοιούτοις (toioutois)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 5108: (including the other inflections); from toi and houtos; truly this, i.e. Of this sort (to denote character or individuality).

by
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

our Lord
Κυρίῳ (Kyriō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2962: Lord, master, sir; the Lord. From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e. controller; by implication, Master.

Jesus
Ἰησοῦ (Iēsou)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

Christ
Χριστῷ (Christō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.

to
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

begin working
ἐργαζόμενοι (ergazomenoi)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 2038: To work, trade, perform, do, practice, commit, acquire by labor.

quietly
ἡσυχίας (hēsychias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 2271: Quietness, stillness, silence. Feminine of hesuchios; stillness, i.e. Desistance from bustle or language.

to earn their own living.
ἐσθίωσιν (esthiōsin)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 2068: Strengthened for a primary edo; used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by phago; to eat.


Additional Translations
We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.

Now we command and exhort to such by our Lord Jesus Christ so that, working with quietness, they may eat their own bread.

Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Now such we enjoin and exhort in [the] Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread.

Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

To persons of that sort our injunction--and our command by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ--is that they are to work quietly and eat their own honestly-earned bread.

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.

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