Acts 9:39-40
So Peter at once got up and went with them. When he reached there, they took him to the room upstairs, and all the widows took their stand around him, crying and showing him the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.
1 Thessalonians 4:11
also keep up your ambition to live quietly, to practice attending to your own business and to work with your own hands, as we directed you,
2 Thessalonians 3:10-12
For when I was with you, I gave you this direction, "If a person refuses to work, he must not be allowed to eat."
1 Timothy 5:10
must have a reputation for doing good deeds, as bringing up children, being hospitable to strangers, washing the feet of God's people, helping people in distress, or devoting herself to any sort of doing good.
1 Timothy 5:14
So I would have the younger women marry, have children, and keep house, so as not to give our opponents any occasion for slander.
Titus 2:5
to be serious, pure, home keepers, kind, and subordinate to their husbands, so as not to cause God's message to suffer reproach.