that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
1 Thessalonians 4:11
Surrounding context
4:10 and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more;
4:11 that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
4:12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.