Idleness
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Idleness’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 25–32 of 32 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
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Matthew 20:6 NT
About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’
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Matthew 20:7 NT
“They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’
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Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’ “He said to him,…
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Acts 17:21 NT
Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
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For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”
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For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.
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Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.