Verse 15

If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 And to make it your ambition to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
  • 2 Thess 3:11 : 11 We hear that some among you are living idle lives, refusing to work and instead becoming busybodies.
  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 At the same time, they also learn to be idle, going around from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they should not.
  • 2 Tim 2:9 : 9 For this gospel I suffer hardship, even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.
  • 1 Pet 2:19-20 : 19 For this is commendable: if someone endures grief, suffering unjustly because of their conscience toward God. 20 What credit is it if you sin and are beaten for it, and you endure? But if you do good and suffer for it, and you endure, this is commendable before God.
  • 1 Pet 3:17 : 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.
  • Matt 5:11 : 11 Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.