Idleness and Sloth: Forbidden

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Romans 12:11
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
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Hebrews 6:12
That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
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Book Two He Concentrates Here on his Sixteenth Year, a Year of ...
... Doing this pleased us all the more because it was forbidden. ... "Lest through idleness,"
he says ... Human sloth pretends to long for rest, but what sure rest is there ...
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Letter viii. Public and Social Worship, and Sabbath Employments.
... and ears may not cause your mind to wander upon forbidden objects ... There is no room,
then, for the indulgence of idleness, indolence, or sloth, upon the ...
/.../letter viii public and social.htm

1 Timothy v. 15-Nov
... For idleness is the teacher of every sin. ... of this kind taken place, he would not
have forbidden them ... of his reward." So that if any one lives in sloth and luxury ...
/.../homily xv 1 timothy v.htm

A Discourse of the Building, Nature, Excellency, and Government of ...
... tree, With cherubims and chains adorned be The doors, the walls, and pillars of
this place; Forbidden beasts here ... Not that the sloth Of idleness should be ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a discourse of the building.htm

To-Morrow
... There is first, the abuse of to-morrow forbidden in the text ... to-morrows, and rest
upon the couch of idleness to-day ... of to-morrow would make up for all my sloth. ...
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Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount
... the carefully avoiding whatever he hath forbidden; the performing all ... A Christian
abhors sloth as much as drunkenness; and flees from idleness as he ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 29 upon our lords.htm

The True Christian's Blessedness
... They work, in opposition to idleness. ... that folds his arms or lies upon the bed of
sloth is an ... once put out my hand to touch that which is forbidden, or allow ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/the true christians blessedness.htm

Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.
... has worse effects than fornication, [693]248; is uncleanness, [694]342; forbidden
to men as ... 1014]392; to be waited for, [1015]393; forbade idleness, [1016]394. ...
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Book ii.
... other; and if any of them come to our houses, like supplicants, we are forbidden
to slay ... we have been in; nor have we neglected them either out of sloth or for ...
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Subtopics

Idleness

Idleness and Sloth: Accompanied by Conceit

Idleness and Sloth: Akin to Extravagance

Idleness and Sloth: Athenians

Idleness and Sloth: Effects of, Afford Instruction to Others

Idleness and Sloth: False Excuses For

Idleness and Sloth: Forbidden

Idleness and Sloth: Illustrated

Idleness and Sloth: Lead to Bondage

Idleness and Sloth: Lead to Disappointment

Idleness and Sloth: Lead to Hunger