But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.
For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.
and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.
for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
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