Not Working

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,

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.

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.

and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat; — read the full passage →

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

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

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

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

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

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

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 →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

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

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal--<FI> even<Fi> God.'

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

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,

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

let all your things be done in love.

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

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

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

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.

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;

the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God; — read the full passage →

and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other, — read the full passage →

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that <FI>is<Fi> towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that <FI>is<Fi> with me;

lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you--doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

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 →

for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,

or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority--not to work?

and labour, working with <FI>our<Fi> own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God, — read the full passage →

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars, — read the full passage →

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive, — read the full passage →

and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

on every first <FI>day<Fi> of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;

work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal--<FI> even<Fi> God.' — read the full passage →

`And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things they have, for worthy <FI>is<Fi> the workman of his hire; go not from house to house,

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility, — read the full passage →

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths, — read the full passage →

and labour, working with <FI>our<Fi> own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer; — read the full passage →

One doth judge one day above another, and another doth judge every day <FI>alike<Fi> ; let each in his own mind be fully assured.

in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving; — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

and he said, `The things impossible with men are possible with God.'

And it came to pass--he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields--and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears, — read the full passage →

`For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard, — read the full passage →

And Jesus having earnestly beheld, said to them, `With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'