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1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 NIV

    11Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, 12so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

New International Version
Biblica
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1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 AMP

11To make it your ambition and definitely endeavor to live quietly and peacefully, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you,

    12So that you may bear yourselves becomingly and be correct and honorable and command the respect of the outside world, being dependent on nobody [self-supporting] and having need of nothing.

   

Amplified Bible
The Lockman Foundation
Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987


1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 KJV


   11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
   12That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

King James Version
Public Domain

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1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 NASB

   11and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

   12so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need.

New American Standard Bible
The Lockman Foundation
Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995

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1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 NLT

   11 Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. 12 Then people who are not Christians will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others.

New Living Translation
Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers.
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004


1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 MSG

   11 -12Stay calm; mind your own business; do your own job. You've heard all this from us before, but a reminder never hurts. We want you living in a way that will command the respect of outsiders, not lying around sponging off your friends.

The Message
Eugene H. Peterson
Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002

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