Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; ¹⁰Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

Titus 2:9-10 

There are bond servants, there are paid servants. Do you have a job? Someone is paying you to serve them. Servant is the correct translation, not slaves.

Are you being slack on the job, you are purloining. Purloining is stealing as burglary, robbery, and embezzlement, are stealing. They are methods of stealing. Purloiniong is stealing by breach of trust. An employer has a right to expect you to spend your time employed in what he is paying you for. When you said you would work for him for so much, you engaged in an unwritten contract. When you are slack in your work, you are in breach of that contract and stealing his money. Purlioning is the opposite if being faithful: “good fidelity.”

The Bible is just as applicable today as any other.

Lest you feel that the word ‘purloin’ is an archaic out of-use word:

These aren’t counterfeits, but actual cards purloined from a hospital pharmacy where the vaccines were sold and included batch numbers but without names attached. In essence, they were contraband.

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