Quotes about Responsibility
For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”
— 2 Thessalonians 3:10
Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.
— 2 Thessalonians 3:11
We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.
— 2 Thessalonians 3:12
And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression.
— 1 Timothy 2:14
This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.
— 1 Timothy 3:1
An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.
— 1 Timothy 3:4
For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
— 1 Timothy 3:5
Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued or given to much wine or greedy for money.
— 1 Timothy 3:8
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.
— 1 Timothy 3:12
Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given you through the prophecy spoken over you at the laying on of the hands of the elders.
— 1 Timothy 4:14
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
— 1 Timothy 5:8
and thus will incur judgment because they are setting aside their first faith.
— 1 Timothy 5:12