minding your business
1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:1
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:2
For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:3
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
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That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:5
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:6
That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:7
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:8
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:9
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:10
And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:11
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
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That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
1 Timothy Chapter 5:13
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.