1Tim 5:13 Idle Widows

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Idle Widows

1Tim 5:13 And besides they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

It is not healthy for one's life to be predominantly leisure, free from labor. While God provides times for rest, it is written, "Six days you shall labor and do all your work." Ex 20:9 And we were created in Christ Jesus to be actively involved in doing good works, but idle hands are the devil's workshop.

One way in which women who have too much time on their hands fall into sins associated with idleness is by interfering in the lives of others - gossiping about others, being busybodies. The greek lexicon defines the word used for "busybody" as "busy about trifles and neglectful of important matters esp. busy about other folks' affairs."

And of busybodies Paul notes in 2Thess 3:11,12 that "we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread."

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