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 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.
[2] "If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him,
But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,