1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 – “That you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands . . . that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.”
2 Timothy 2:21 – “Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.”
Galatians 4:4-5 “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.”
2 Timothy 1:9 – “He has saved us and called us to a holy life – not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.”