Study Desk

Now as to the love of the brothers and sisters, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

for indeed you practice it toward all the brothers and sisters who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to excel even more,

And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we instructed you,

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need.

That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.