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What the Bible Says
about Idleness
Warning Against Idleness
2 Thessalonians 3:6-15
6 "But
we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you
withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to
the tradition which he received from us. 7 For you
yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we were not disorderly
among you; 8 nor did we eat anyone’s bread free
of charge, but worked with labor and toil night and day, that we might
not be a burden to any of you, 9 not because we
do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example of how you should
follow us. 10 For even when we were with you, we
commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. 11
For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner,
not working at all, but are busybodies. 12 Now those
who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that
they work in quietness and eat their own bread. 13
But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary in doing good. 14
And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle, note that person
and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed. 15
Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother."
Dear
Savitrie
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