I Thessalonians 4:9-12 Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. 10 And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, 11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, 12 so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
II Thessalonians 3:7-137 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, 8 nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. 9 We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate. 10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.” 11 We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. 12 Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat. 13 And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.
- Love
- One another
- Growing love
- Discipline
- Aspire to a quit life
- Mind your own business
- II Thessalonians 3:7 – no disorderly among the brethren
- Some were busybodies II Thessalonians 3:11
- Work
- Work with your own hands
- You work you eat II Thessalonians 3:10
- Toil and labored II Thessalonians 3:11
- Burden
- No dependent on anybody
- II Thessalonians 3:8 not a burden
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