1:4 As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.
2 Thessalonians 3:12
3:12 Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat. 1
1 tnGrk “that by working quietly they may eat their own bread.”