1 Thessalonians · 1 Thessalonians 4
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,
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The verses immediately either side, within 1 Thessalonians 4.
Before
10for indeed you do it towards all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
1 Thessalonians 4:11
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 instructed you,
After
12that you may walk properly towards those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.