Busybodies

8 passages

1. 1 Timothy 5:13

   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.

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2. 1 Thessalonians 4:11

   and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.

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3. 2 Thessalonians 3:11

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

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4. 1 Peter 4:15

   Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.

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5. Proverbs 20:3

   It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.

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6. Leviticus 19:16

   You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.

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7. Titus 2:3

   Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.

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8. 2 Thessalonians 3:6

   Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who leads an undisciplined life that is not in keeping with the tradition you received from us.

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