QUIETLY WORKING

Paul, an apostle, wrote, “Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. 
Then people who are not believers will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others.” (1 Thessalonians 4:11-12)

He also wrote to the same church, “For you well know that you ought to follow our example: you never saw us loafing; we never accepted food from anyone without buying it; we worked hard day and night for the money we needed to live on, in order that we would not be a burden to any of you. It wasn’t that we didn’t have the right to ask you to feed us, but we wanted to show you firsthand how you should work for your living. Even while we were still there with you, we gave you this rule: “He who does not work shall not eat.” Yet we hear that some of you are living in laziness, refusing to work, and wasting your time in gossiping. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we appeal to such people—we command them—to quiet down, get to work, and earn their own living.” 
(2 Thessalonians 3:7-12)

“The slothful desire the gains that the diligent get, but they hate the pains that the diligent take to get it.” Matthew Henry (1662-1714), Bible Commentator.

“My Father is working until now, and I myself am working.” Jesus