2 Thessalonians 3:12

10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

11 For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are ^abusybodies.

12 Now those who are such we command and¹ exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ ^athat they work in quietness and eat their own bread.

13 But as for you, brethren, ^ado not grow weary in doing good.

14 And if anyone does not obey our word in this¹ epistle, note that person and ^ado not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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With quietness they work - ̔· 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.

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