GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Idle, Idleness

Inactive and uninvolved in righteous works.

If any would not work, neither should he eat, 2 Thes. 3: 10. They did become an idle people, full of mischief, 2 Ne. 5: 24. Refrain from idleness, Alma 38: 12. He that is idle shall not eat the bread of the laborer, D&C 42: 42. Wo unto you who will not labor with your own hands, D&C 56: 17. Be anxiously engaged in a good cause, D&C 58: 27. Cease to be idle, D&C 88: 124.