And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
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Gill's Exposition
And that ye study to be quiet,.... To live peaceably in their own families, and to give no disturbance to other families, by talebearing, whispering, and backbiting; to behave with quietness in the…
Barnes' Notes
And that ye study to be quiet - Orderly, peaceful; living in the practice of the calm virtues of life. The duty to which he would exhort them was that of being subordinate to the laws; of avoiding all…
Adam Clarke
That ye study to be quiet - Though in general the Church at Thessalonica was pure and exemplary, yet there seem to have been some idle, tattling people among them, who disturbed the peace of others;…
In these words the apostle mentions the great duties,
I. Of brotherly love. This he exhorts them to increase in yet more and more. The exhortation is introduced, not with a compliment, but with a…
Cambridge Bible
and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business Lit., that you be ambitions to be quiet an example of St Paul's characteristic irony; the contrast between ambitionand quietgiving a sharper…
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