Paul, Silas, & Timothy had gotten wind of a group of Believers in the Church at Thessalonica that believed that Jesus was coming back at any moment…and so working for a living, they thought, showed lack of faith. This erroneous expectation was actually addressed by Paul in his first letter to the Church, (I Thessalonians 4:11) but the problem didn’t go away, and was only growing worse…so here in his second letter, Paul makes it clear, idleness only leads to an undisciplined & lazy life. He exhorts those with this chronic conduct to start behaving themselves in a more Christ-like way…becoming responsible Believers and thus glorifying God in the process. But this wasn’t the only place that Paul warned against idlers. He admonished Timothy to not place any widow younger than 60 on the Widows List for Church Assistance…citing that without anything to do, they could easily become idlers, gossips, & busybodies, “saying things they ought not to.” (I Timothy 5:13)
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