“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 instructed you,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Thessalonians 4 contains 18 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.