¹² Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

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

²⁸ Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

⁸ neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

¹⁴ Issachar is a strong ass, Couching down between the sheepfolds:

¹⁵ And he saw a resting-place that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And became a servant under taskwork.

¹ Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife.

⁶ Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.

³ Give us day by day our daily bread.

¹ Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, --that ye abound more and more.

² for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.