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.


In Context

9 Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.

10 For also when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

11 For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly, working not at all, but curiously meddling.

12 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.

13 But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed:

2 Thessalonians 3:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the bread they eat.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12Now such we enjoin and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.