Quotes About Responsibility

For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,

nor did we eat anyoneís food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”

Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.

We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.

And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression.

This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.

An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.

For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?

Additionally, they must first be tested. Then, if they are above reproach, let them serve as deacons.

A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.

Give these instructions to the believers, so that they will be above reproach.

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.

So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.

Do not be too quick in the laying on of hands and thereby share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

And the things that you have heard me say among many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be qualified to teach others as well.

The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in order what was unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.

As Godís steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-absorbed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.

In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge it to my account.

I, Paul, write this with my own hand. I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me your very self.

Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom.

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.