8 Bible Verses about Idleness

Now we conjure you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient with all men.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother who walketh disorderly, and not according to the injunction which he hath received from us. For ye yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us; for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you, neither did we eat bread with any man unpaid for, but with labour and toil worked night and day, that we might be burdensome to none of you:read more.
not that we have not such power, but that we might be ourselves an example for you to imitate. For when we were with you, this we enjoined you, that if a man would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some among you who walk disorderly, doing no work, but being busy-bodies. Now such we command, and conjure, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they labour, and eat their own bread. But ye, brethren, be not weary of well doing. And if any man obey not our word by letter, mark that man, and maintain no society with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet regard him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

And at the same time also they learn to be idle, visiting about in the houses; and not merely idle, but talkative and inquisitive, speaking things they ought not.

One of them, a poet of their own nation, hath said, The Cretans are always liars, wicked beasts, slothful gluttons.

But we earnestly desire that every one of you do manifest the same diligence, in order to obtain the full assurance of hope unto the end: that ye be not slothful, but imitators of those who, by faith and long suffering, are inheriting the promises.

For ye yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us; for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you, neither did we eat bread with any man unpaid for, but with labour and toil worked night and day, that we might be burdensome to none of you: not that we have not such power, but that we might be ourselves an example for you to imitate.