Warning Against Idleness
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But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, h that you withdraw i from every brother who walks j disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.
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For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we were not disorderly among you;
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nor did we eat anyone's bread free of charge, but worked with k labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you,
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not because we do not have l authority, but to make ourselves an example of how you should follow us.
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For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.
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For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are m busybodies.
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Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ n that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.
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But as for you, brethren, o do not grow weary in doing good.
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And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle, note that person and p do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.
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q Yet do not count him as an enemy, r but admonish him as a brother.
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Cross References
Romans 16:17
Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them.
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1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles - that a man has his father's wife!
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1 Thessalonians 4:11
That you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.
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1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
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1 Corinthians 9:4
Do we have no right to eat and drink?
1 Corinthians 9:6 - 14
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working?
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1 Timothy 5:13
And besides they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
1 Peter 4:15
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people's matters.
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Ephesians 4:28
Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.
1 Thessalonians 4:11
That you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.
1 Thessalonians 4:12
That you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.
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2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart.
Galatians 6:9
And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
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Cross References
Matthew 18:17
And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.
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Cross References
Leviticus 19:17
You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
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Titus 3:10
Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition.
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