Parallel Verses
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;
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,
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,
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 -
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 for you indeed are doing the same thing unto all the brethren in all Macedonia. And we exhort you, brethren, that you abound more and more; 11 and that you aspire to be quiet, and to prosecute your own employments, and work with your hands, as we proclaimed unto you; 12 in order that you may walk about circumspectly toward the aliens, and you may have need of nothing.
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 4:28
Let the one stealing steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his own hands doing that which is good, that he may have to give to the one having need.
1 Peter 4:15
But let no one of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other people's business:
Luke 12:42-43
The Lord said, Who then is the faithful, wise steward, whom the lord will establish over his house-hold, to give them their food in season?
1 Peter 3:4
but let their beauty be the hidden man of the heart, in the purity of the meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is perfection complete.
Mark 13:34
As a man, going away, leaving his own house, and giving authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and commanded the porter that he should watch.
Acts 18:3
and because they were of the same craft, abode with them, and they labored: for they were tentmakers by trade.
Acts 20:35
I have shown you all things, that it so behooveth you laboring to assist the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Romans 12:4-8
For we indeed have many members in one body, but all the members have not the same office:
Romans 12:11
not slothful in business; boiling over in spirit; serving the Lord;
Romans 15:20
but being so ambitious not to preach the gospel, where Christ has been named, in order that I may not build on another man's foundation;
1 Corinthians 4:12
and we toil working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it;
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore we are truly ambitious, whether being present or absent, to be well pleasing unto him.
Colossians 3:22-24
Ye servants, obey your masters according to the flesh in all things; not with eye-service, pleasing men, but of purity of heart, fearing the Lord.
2 Thessalonians 3:7-12
For you yourselves know how it behooves you to imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you;
1 Timothy 2:2
for kings and all who are in authority; in order that we may lead a peaceable and quiet life in all godliness and honesty.
1 Timothy 5:13
and at the same time they learn to be idle, going about houses; and not only idle, but also loquacious even busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Titus 2:4-10
in order that they instruct the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
Titus 3:14
And let our people indeed learn to excel in good works for necessary uses, in order that they may not be unfruitful.
1 Peter 4:10-11
as each one received the gift of grace, ministering the same to one another, as the good stewards of the manifold grace of God: