Being Lazy

`For--as a man going abroad did call his own servants, and did deliver to them his substance, — read the full passage →

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. — read the full passage →

And he said to them, `The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath,

put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil, — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

and he said to him, Well done, good servant, because in a very little thou didst become faithful, be having authority over ten cities.

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working, — read the full passage →

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also <FI>is<Fi> the Christ, — read the full passage →

`Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;'

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you, — read the full passage →

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat, — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men, — read the full passage →

`And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out, — read the full passage →

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise, — read the full passage →

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

and having been afraid, having gone away, I hid thy talent in the earth; lo, thou hast thine own! — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

`He who is faithful in the least, <FI>is<Fi> also faithful in much; and he who in the least <FI>is<Fi> unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:

Because of this it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside, — read the full passage →

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

`And he also who hath received the one talent having come, said, Sir, I knew thee, that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, and gathering from whence thou didst not scatter; — read the full passage →

and then I will acknowledge to them, that--I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.