1 Thessalonians 4:11

Believers should aim to live quietly, mind their own affairs, and work with their hands. A calm, diligent, self-supporting life honors God.

Cross-references · 22

• Eph 4:28Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
• Eccl 4:6Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
• 1 Pet 3:4but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.
• Titus 3:14Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
• Prov 17:1Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.
• Lam 3:26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
• 1 Tim 2:2for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
• 1 Cor 4:12We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
• Rom 12:11not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
• 1 Tim 5:13Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
• 2 Cor 5:9Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
• 1 Pet 4:15For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.
• 2 Th 3:7–12For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,
• Titus 2:4–10that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
• Acts 20:35In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
• Luke 12:42–43The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
• Mark 13:34“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
• Col 3:22–24Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
• 1 Pet 4:10–11As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
• Rom 15:20yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.
• Acts 18:3and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
• Rom 12:4–8For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,

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