 | Robert STORY (Minister of Roseneath.) - 1830 - 322 pages
...profession, of avoiding the reproach of eating the bread of idleness. She remembered the words of Paul, " We command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that...quietness they work, and eat their own bread :" and when she looked upon her mother and her sisters, the words of another apostle, " But if any provide... | |
 | 1830 - 602 pages
...all, but are busy-bodies," ie gossiping tale-bearers. " Now them that are such," continues 8 58 he, " we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, ....with quietness they work and eat their own bread," vs. 11, 12. From all this it is perfectly clear, that the church at Thessalonica were strictly charged... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 722 pages
...bread, as St. Paul im2 Thess. iii. plieth, when he saith, Them that are such we comT£ ii«-i. mand and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. Of this generous ingenuity we have a notable in1 Cor. ix. stance in that great apostle himself ; which... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 668 pages
...among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busy-bodies. If «wr them that are such, wecommand and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work and eat their own bread d." " We beseech yon brethren—— that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and work... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1831 - 300 pages
...hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, hut are busy bodiei. 12. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our...with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. " Thus you see, gentlemen, those precepts which the. 'Apostle addressed to the- teachers of religion,... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 pages
...hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busy-bodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our...with quietness they work, and eat their own bread." He then refers to his own example. Though he might have called upon them to support him while he was... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 538 pages
...subsistence : foe he that doth not earn, can hardly own his bread, as St. Paul implieth, when he saith, ' Them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord...with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.' Of this generous ingenuity we have a notable instance in that great Apostle himself; which he doth... | |
 | Edward Berens - 1831 - 96 pages
...is in this spirit that St. Paul says, that if any would not work, neither should he eat: and again, We command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work and eat their own bread*:—their OWN bread—bread earned by their own labour, their own exertions. So again to the... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busy-bodies. Now them that are such, we command and exhort by our...with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing." Jacob had to meet his brother Esau, who was coming towards... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - 1832 - 450 pages
...hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busy bodies. Now them that are such, we command, and exhort, by...with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. Indolence is ever conducive to vice and misery. To encourage it in others, is to do them wrong to an... | |
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For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. 
