10 For even (A)when we were with you, we used to give you this order: (B)if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either. 11 For we hear that some among you are (C)leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like (D)busybodies. 12 Now we command and (E)exhort such persons in the Lord Jesus Christ to (F)work [a]peacefully and eat their own bread.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 3:12 Lit with quietness

10 For even when we were with you,(A) we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work(B) shall not eat.”

11 We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies.(C) 12 Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ(D) to settle down and earn the food they eat.(E)

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