Work

 

 

1 Tim 5:8

8          If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

(NIV)

 

Titus 3:14

14         Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives.

(NIV)

 

II Th 3:7‑12

7          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 make ourselves a model for you to follow.

10         For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."

11         We hear that some among you are idle. 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 bread they eat.

(NIV)

 

Working too much?

Exodus 5:17-18  Pharaoh said, "Lazy, that's what you are--lazy!  That is why you keep saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.'  Now get to work.  You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks."

Exodus 6:6-8 Therefore, say to the Israelites:  'I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.  I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgement.  I will take you as my people and I will be your God ... And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand ... I will give it to you as a possession ..."