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

¹¹ and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we charged you;

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

⁸ neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

¹⁴ "Issachar is a strong donkey, Lying down between the saddlebags.

¹⁵ He saw a resting-place, that it was good, The land, that it was pleasant; He bows his shoulder to the burden, And becomes a servant doing forced labor.

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

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

³ Give us day by day our daily bread.

¹ Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

² for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.