10 for indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to progress even more, 11 and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to your own business,[a] and to work with your hands,[b] just as we commanded you, 12 so that you may live decently toward those outside, and may have need of nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:11 Literally “your own things”
  2. 1 Thessalonians 4:11 Some manuscripts have “your own hands”