Sorry, the full quote from the International Standard Version should be

Also, make it your goal to live quietly, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you, so that you may win the respect of outsiders, and have need of nothing.

I too am not a Christian but remember this advice from 1 John 3;18

Little children, we must stop expressing love merely by our words and manner of speech; we must love also in action and in truth.