Idleness

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.”

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 →

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

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.

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.

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

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

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 →

Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

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 →

For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you, — read the full passage →

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me. — read the full passage →

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.

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,

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

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.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

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

“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.

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you; — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.