Settle down and get a job
2Thess 3:11,12 We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy; they are busybodies. Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the bread they eat.
A "busybody" has two concepts to it. One is "to busy one's self about trifling" or to avoid working in the sense of procrastination and the other is used of a person officiously inquisitive about other's affairs, in other words a meddler. For example Paul speaks of the characteristic trend of younger widows saying:
"they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they ought not to." 1Tim 5:13There's a saying that goes: "Idle hands are the devil's workshop". It is often when we are idle that sin creeps in. So "make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody." 1Thess 4:11,12
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2Thess 3:11,12 We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy; they are busybodies. Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the bread they eat.
A "busybody" has two concepts to it. One is "to busy one's self about trifling" or to avoid working in the sense of procrastination and the other is used of a person officiously inquisitive about other's affairs, in other words a meddler. For example Paul speaks of the characteristic trend of younger widows saying:
"they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they ought not to." 1Tim 5:13There's a saying that goes: "Idle hands are the devil's workshop". It is often when we are idle that sin creeps in. So "make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody." 1Thess 4:11,12
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