Thematic Bible: Industriously
Thematic Bible
hands » Should be employed » Industriously
[We also urge you to] make it your aim to live a quiet life, and to attend to your own business matters, and to work with your hands, as we urged you. [Note: Possibly this exhortation was directed toward the tendency of some people there to neglect ordinary responsibilities in view of an imminent return of Christ].
Verse Concepts
The person who has stolen must stop doing it; instead, he should work hard, doing something worthwhile with his own hands, so that he can have [money] to share with the person who needs it.
Verse Concepts
Related Topics
- A Quiet Life
- Active Lifestyles
- Almsgiving
- Altruism
- Ambition, positive aspects of
- Business
- Busyness
- Charity
- Conduct, Proper
- Diligence, Rewards Of
- Do Not Steal
- Doing One's Work
- Doing Your Best
- Eighth Commandment
- Fraud
- Frugality
- Giving To The Poor
- Goals
- Hard Work
- Helping Others In Need
- Helping Those In Need
- Holy Ambition
- Industry
- Labor
- Lack
- Minding Your Own Business
- Physical Labour
- Poor, Duty To
- Positive Thinking
- Poverty, Remedies For
- Quietness
- Rest, Physical
- Robbery
- Stealing
- Studying
- The Benefits Of Labor
- The Fact Of Toil
- Thrift
- Wasting Time
- Work, As Ordained By God
- Hardwork
- Thieves