11And 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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Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-12)In these words the apostle mentions the great duties, I. Of brotherly love. This he exhorts them to increase in yet more and more. The exhortation is introduced, not with a compliment, but with a commendation, because they were remarkable in the exercise of it, which made it less needful that he should write to them about it, 1 Thess. 4:9. Thus by his good opinion of them he insinuated himself int…
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