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Our apostle having exhorted the Thessalonians to industry and diligence in the foregoing verse, he presses it with a double argument in this verse.
1. Hereby they should walk honestly towards them that are without, that is, in a decent and seemly manner in the eyes of unconverted Pagans, who are said to be without, because without the pale of the visible church; and,
2. Because, by God's blessing upon their industry, they would attain to such a competency of the things of this life, as to lack nothing which the wisdom of God saw fit and convenient for them; so that by industrious diligence we please God, we profit ourselves, are serviceable to the public, we silence and stop the mouths of the enemies of religion, and beautify our profession with a becoming conversation.