Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
And to be ambitious to be quiet, and to be attending to your own affairs, and to be working with your hands, - even as, unto you, we gave charge -
New American Standard Bible
and to make it your ambition
King James Version
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
Holman Bible
to seek to lead a quiet life,
International Standard Version
Also, make it your goal to live quietly, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you,
A Conservative Version
and to aspire to live quietly, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,
American Standard Version
and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;
Amplified
and to make it your ambition to live quietly and peacefully, and to mind your own affairs and work with your hands, just as we directed you,
An Understandable Version
[We also urge you to] make it your aim to live a quiet life, and to attend to your own business matters, and to work with your hands, as we urged you. [Note: Possibly this exhortation was directed toward the tendency of some people there to neglect ordinary responsibilities in view of an imminent return of Christ].
Anderson New Testament
and that you earnestly endeavor to live quietly, and that you attend to your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
Bible in Basic English
And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;
Common New Testament
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you,
Daniel Mace New Testament
to study your own quiet, to mind your own affairs, and follow some handicraft trade, as we recommended it to you:
Darby Translation
and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands, even as we charged you,
Godbey New Testament
and that you aspire to be quiet, and to prosecute your own employments, and work with your hands, as we proclaimed unto you;
Goodspeed New Testament
in striving to live quietly and mind your own affairs, and work with your hands, as we directed you,
John Wesley New Testament
And that ye study to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you;
Julia Smith Translation
And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you;
King James 2000
And that you study to be quiet, and to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
Lexham Expanded Bible
and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,
Modern King James verseion
and that you try earnestly to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and that ye study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you:
Moffatt New Testament
also, endeavour to live quietly, attend to your own business, and ??as we charged you ??work with your hands,
Montgomery New Testament
Also, that you endeavor to live quietly and to mind your own business, and to work with your hands (as I charged you).
NET Bible
to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.
New Heart English Bible
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
Noyes New Testament
and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
Sawyer New Testament
and strive to be quiet and pursue your own business, and work with your hands, as we charged you,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
and that you make it your study to live peaceably, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we have enjoined you;
Twentieth Century New Testament
Make it your ambition to live quietly, and to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we directed you;
Webster
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
Weymouth New Testament
and to vie with one another in eagerness for peace, every one minding his own business and working with his hands, as we ordered you to do:
Williams New Testament
also keep up your ambition to live quietly, to practice attending to your own business and to work with your own hands, as we directed you,
World English Bible
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
Worrell New Testament
and to make it your aim to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we charged you;
Worsley New Testament
and endeavour to be quiet, and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands,
Youngs Literal Translation
and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,
Themes
Evil » Appearance of, to be avoided
hands » Operations of, mentioned » Working
Topics
Interlinear
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Idios
Idios
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 4:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Affirmation Of Continuing Love
10 And, in fact, ye are doing it unto all the brethren who arein the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more, 11 And to be ambitious to be quiet, and to be attending to your own affairs, and to be working with your hands, - even as, unto you, we gave charge - 12 That ye should walk reputably toward those without, and, of no one, have, need.
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 4:28
Let, the stealer, no more, steal, but rather let him be toiling, - working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have wherewith to be giving away to him that hath need;
1 Peter 4:15
For let, none of you, be suffering as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as one prying into other men's affairs;
Proverbs 17:1
Better a dry morsel, and peace therewith, than a house full of contentious sacrifices.
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better a handful - with quietness, - than both hands, full - with toil, and feeding on wind.
Lamentations 3:26
Good it is - both to wait and to be silent, for the deliverance of Yahweh;
Luke 12:42-43
And the Lord said - Who then is the faithful steward, the prudent one, whom the lord will appoint over his body of attendants, to be giving, in due season, the measured allowance of wheat?
1 Peter 3:4
But the hidden character, of the heart, - in the incorruptible ornament of the quiet, and meek, spirit, which is, in presence of God, of great price.
Mark 13:34
As a man from home - having left his house, and given his servants the authority, to each one, his work, - and, unto the porter, hath given command, that he should watch: -
Acts 18:3
and, because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought, for they were tent-makers by their trade.
Acts 20:35
In all things, I gave you to understand, that, thus toiling, it behoves to be helping the weak, also to be keeping in mind the words of the Lord Jesus, that, he himself, said - Happy is it, rather to give than to receive!
Romans 12:4-8
For, just as in one body we have many members, yet, all the members, have not the same office,
Romans 12:11
In business, not slothful, in spirit, fervent, to the Lord, doing service,
Romans 15:20
Although, thus, - as ambitious to be announcing the glad-message - not where Christ had been named, lest, upon another's foundation, I should be building;
1 Corinthians 4:12
And toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless, being persecuted, we hold on,
2 Corinthians 5:9
Wherefore also we are ambitious - whether at home, or away from home, to be, well-pleasing unto him.
Colossians 3:22-24
Ye servants! be obedient, in all things, unto them who, according to the flesh, are your masters, - not with eye-service, as man-pleasers, but with singleness of heart, revering the Lord, -
2 Thessalonians 3:7-12
For, ye yourselves, know, how needful it is to be imitating us, in that we were not disorderly among you,
1 Timothy 2:2
In behalf of kings, and all them who are, in eminent station; in order that, an undisturbed, and quiet life, we may lead, in all godliness and gravity:
1 Timothy 5:13
At the same time, to be idlers, are they learning, going about from house to house; and, not only idlers, but, gossips, also, and, busybodies, - saying the things they ought not,
Titus 2:4-10
That they may constrain the young women to be, lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,
Titus 3:14
Moreover, let our own learn to be forward, in honourable works, for the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
1 Peter 4:10-11
Each one, according as he hath received a gift of favour, unto one another, ministering the same, as careful stewards of the manifold favour of God: