11Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you,


In Context

8 Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

9 Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.

10 And in fact, you do love all the brothers throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more.

11 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,

12 so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

13 Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope.

1st Thessalonians 4:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:11and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:11And that you use your endeavour to be quiet, and that you do your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:11and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands, even as we charged you,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:11and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:11and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:11and 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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:11And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;