1 Timothy 5:13

American Standard Version (1901)

And withal they learn also [to be] idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

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  • Prov 20:19 : 19 He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets; Therefore company not with him that openeth wide his lips.
  • Prov 31:27 : 27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
  • 1 Pet 4:15 : 15 For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters:
  • 3 John 1:10 : 10 Therefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he doeth, prating against us with wicked words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and them that would he forbiddeth and casteth [them] out of the church.
  • Jas 3:10 : 10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
  • Luke 10:7 : 7 And in that same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
  • Acts 20:20 : 20 how I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house,
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
  • 2 Thess 3:6-9 : 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us. 7 For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; 8 neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you: 9 not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us. 10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat. 11 For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.
  • Lev 19:16 : 16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am Jehovah.

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    14I desire therefore that the younger [widows] marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

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  • 2 Thess 3:10-12
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    10For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

    11For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.

    12Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

  • 2 Tim 3:5-7
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    5holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away.

    6For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,

    7ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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    9Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, [having been] the wife of one man,

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    11But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

    12having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

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    3that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

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    10For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,

    11whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

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    15For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters:

  • 1 Tim 5:6-7
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    6But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

    7These things also command, that they may be without reproach.

  • 2 Pet 2:13-14
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    13suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; [men] that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;

    14having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;

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    4he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

    5wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.

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    11(She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:

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    11and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

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    6from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking;

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    2the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

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    16But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

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    29being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

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    35And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

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    14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

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    7but refuse profane and old wives' fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness: