Idle Hands

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.” — read the full passage →

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us. — read the full passage →

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

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

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter. — read the full passage →

But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry; — read the full passage →

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies. — read the full passage →

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end, — read the full passage →

of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you; — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come. — read the full passage →

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen. — read the full passage →

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us. — read the full passage →

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us. — read the full passage →

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

About the eleventh hourhe went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

He went out about the third hour,and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.