2 Thessalonians 3:12

“Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread”

“Now them that are such”: Notice that God gives these individuals one last chance to repent, yet equally observe that one must come to God on God's conditions “We command and exhort”: “Our order to such men, indeed our appeal by the Lord Jesus Christ” (Phi).

“Quietness”: “To settle down to work and eat the food they have earned themselves” (Phi). “The teaching of the verse has been well summed up as ‘Stop fussing; stop idling; stop sponging'” (Marshall p. 225). “They work”: God knows that generally, people in any time or culture can find work that will put the necessities of life on the table. “Own bread”: The New Testament church was not. commune.