¹⁰for that indeed is what ^zyou are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to ^ado this more and more, ¹¹and to aspire ^bto live quietly, and ^cto mind your own affairs, and ^dto work with your hands, as we instructed you,

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Cross references

zch. 1:7
aSee ch. 3:12
b Prov. 17:14; 20:3; 25:8; 2 Thess. 3:12
c 2 Thess. 3:11; 1 Pet. 4:15
d[Acts 18:3]; See Eph. 4:28

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers and sisters in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do this even more, to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

NLTNew Living Translation

Indeed, you already show your love for all the believers throughout Macedonia. Even so, dear brothers and sisters, we urge you to love them even more.

Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

for indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to progress even more, 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,

KJV 1900King James Version

And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

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