Canonical biblical theme
Work and Stewardship
Biblical Theology
Themes
These passages pair quiet labor with attending to one’s affairs and eating one’s own bread.
On work and stewardship, the collected passages urge people to work with their hands, attend to their own affairs, and live quietly (1 Thessalonians 4:11). The following verse connects this conduct with walking properly toward outsiders and having need of nothing (1 Thessalonians 4:12). In 2 Thessalonians, the instruction states that one unwilling to work should not eat, and urges people to work quietly and eat their own bread (2 Thessalonians 3:10; 2 Thessalonians 3:12). The word or idea recurs in at least 4 verses across 2 books and 2 episodes.
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Books
Key verses
Across Scripture
1 Thessalonians · 2 Thessalonians