Idleness

And withal they learn also to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.

And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

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

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you; — read the full passage →

And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle;

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

And these words appeared in their sight as idle talk; and they disbelieved them.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

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

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

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

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

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

For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; — read the full passage →

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

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

And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto thee, turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

And he said unto them, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his harvest.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me.

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

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

But his lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I did not scatter;

But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh even until now, and I work.

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

neither did we eat bread for nought at any man’s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you: — read the full passage →

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

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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

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