1 Thessalonians 4:11 Cross References - RYLT

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

³⁴ as a man who is gone abroad, having left his house, and given to his servants the authority, and to each one his work, did command also the porter that he may watch;

⁴² And the Lord said, 'Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure? ⁴³ Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;

³ and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft;

³⁵ all things I did show you, that, thus labouring, it behooves us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

⁴ for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office, ⁵ so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another. ⁶ And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- 'According to the proportion of faith!' ⁷ or ministration -- 'In the ministration!' or he who is teaching -- 'In the teaching!' ⁸ or he who is exhorting -- 'In the exhortation!' he who is sharing -- 'In simplicity!' he who is leading -- 'In diligence?' he who is doing kindness -- 'In cheerfulness.'

¹¹ in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

²⁰ and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named -- that upon another's foundation I might not build --

¹² and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

⁹ Therefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

²⁸ whosoever is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart\'7bgive\'7d to him having need.

²² The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God; ²³ and all, whatever you may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men, ²⁴ having known that from the Lord you shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ you serve;

⁷ for yourselves have known how it behooves you to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you; ⁸ nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you; ⁹ not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us; ¹⁰ for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat, ¹¹ for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working, ¹² and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

² for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,

¹³ and at the same time also, they learn to be idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

⁴ that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children, ⁵ sober, pure, keepers of their own houses\'7bhomemakers\'7d, good, subject\'7bsubmissive\'7d to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of. ⁶ The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded; ⁷ concerning all things yourself showing a pattern\'7ban example\'7d of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility, ⁸ discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you. ⁹ Servants -- to their own masters are to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying, ¹⁰ not purloining\'7bembezzling\'7d, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

¹⁴ and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

⁴ but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

¹⁰ each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; ¹¹ if any one does speak -- 'as oracles of God;' if any one does minister -- 'as of the ability which God does supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.

¹⁵ for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;