Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

Working

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

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

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But he said, "You are idle. You are idle. Therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.'

Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening.

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"