# with quietness
"in a quiet, peaceful, and mild manner." Paul exhorts the meddlers to stop getting involved in other people's affairs.
# eat their own bread
Bread here is a synecdoche for any kind of food. See how "bread" is translated in [2 Thessalonians 3:8](./08.md). Alternate translation: "eat their own food" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])