Verse 11

We hear that some among you are living idle lives, refusing to work and instead becoming busybodies.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 At the same time, they also learn to be idle, going around from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they should not.
  • 1 Pet 4:15 : 15 If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler.
  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 And to make it your ambition to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
  • 2 Thess 3:6 : 6 Now we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from every brother or sister who is idle and does not live according to the tradition they received from us.