1 Timothy 5:13

Geneva Bible (1560)

And likewise also being idle they learne to goe about from house to house: yea, they are not onely ydle, but also pratlers and busibodies, speaking things which are not comely.

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  • Prov 20:19 : 19 He that goeth about as a slanderer, discouereth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
  • Prov 31:27 : 27 She ouerseeth the wayes of her housholde, and eateth not the bread of ydlenes.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 Whose mouthes must bee stopped, which subuert whole houses, teaching things, which they ought not, for filthie lucres sake.
  • 1 Pet 4:15 : 15 But let none of you suffer as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euil doer, or as a busibodie in other mens matters.
  • 3 John 1:10 : 10 Wherefore if I come, I will call to your remembrance his deedes which he doeth, pratling against vs with malicious wordes, and not therewith content, neither he himselfe receiueth the brethren, but forbiddeth them that woulde, and thrusteth them out of the Church.
  • Jas 3:10 : 10 Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing: my brethren, these things ought not so to be.
  • Luke 10:7 : 7 And in that house tary still, eating and drinking such things as by them shall be set before you: for the labourer is worthy of his wages. Goe not from house to house.
  • Acts 20:20 : 20 And how I kept backe nothing that was profitable, but haue shewed you, and taught you openly and throughout euery house,
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 Moreouer of your owne selues shall men arise speaking peruerse thinges, to drawe disciples after them.
  • 2 Thess 3:6-9 : 6 We warne you, brethren, in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ, that ye withdrawe your selues from euery brother that walketh inordinately, and not after the instruction, which hee receiued of vs. 7 For ye your selues know, how ye ought to follow vs: for we behaued not our selues inordinately among you, 8 Neither tooke we bread of any man for nought: but we wrought with labour and trauaile night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you. 9 Not because we haue not authoritie, but that we might make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs. 10 For euen when we were with you, this we warned you of, that if there were any, which would not worke, that he should not eate. 11 For we heare, that there are some which walke among you inordinately, and worke not at all, but are busie bodies.
  • Lev 19:16 : 16 Thou shalt not walke about with tales among thy people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Tim 5:14-16
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    14 I will therefore that the yonger women marie, and beare children, and gouerne the house, and giue none occasion to the aduersary to speake euill.

    15 For certaine are alreadie turned backe after Satan.

    16 If any faithfull man, or faithfull woman haue widowes, let them minister vnto them, and let not the Church bee charged, that there may bee sufficient for them that are widowes in deede.

  • 2 Thess 3:10-12
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    10 For euen when we were with you, this we warned you of, that if there were any, which would not worke, that he should not eate.

    11 For we heare, that there are some which walke among you inordinately, and worke not at all, but are busie bodies.

    12 Therefore them that are such, we warne and exhort by our Lord Iesus Christ, that they worke with quietnes, and eate their owne bread.

  • 2 Tim 3:5-7
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    5 Hauing a shewe of godlinesse, but haue denied the power thereof: turne away therefore from such.

    6 For of this sort are they which creepe into houses, and leade captiue simple women laden with sinnes, and led with diuers lustes,

    7 Which women are euer learning, and are neuer able to come to the acknowledging of the trueth.

  • 1 Tim 5:9-12
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    9 Let not a widow be taken into the number vnder three score yeere olde, that hath beene the wife of one husband,

    10 And well reported of for good woorkes: if shee haue nourished her children, if shee haue lodged the strangers, if shee haue washed the Saintes feete, if shee haue ministred vnto them which were in aduersitie, if shee were continually giuen vnto euery good woorke.

    11 But refuse the yonger widowes: for when they haue begun to waxe wanton against Christ, they will marrie,

    12 Hauing damnation, because they haue broken the first faith.

  • Titus 2:3-5
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    3 The elder women likewise, that they be in such behauiour as becommeth holinesse, not false accusers, not subiect to much wine, but teachers of honest things,

    4 That they may instruct the yong women to be sober minded, that they loue their husbads, that they loue their children,

    5 That they be temperate, chaste, keeping at home, good & subiect vnto their husbands, that the word of God be not euill spoken of.

  • Titus 1:10-12
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    10 For there are many disobedient & vaine talkers and deceiuers of mindes, chiefly they of the Circumcision,

    11 Whose mouthes must bee stopped, which subuert whole houses, teaching things, which they ought not, for filthie lucres sake.

    12 One of themselues, euen one of their owne prophets said, The Cretians are alwaies liars, euill beastes, slowe bellies.

  • 1 Pet 4:15
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    15 But let none of you suffer as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euil doer, or as a busibodie in other mens matters.

  • 1 Tim 5:6-7
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    6 But shee that liueth in pleasure, is dead, while shee liueth.

    7 These things therefore warne them of, that they may be blamelesse.

  • 2 Pet 2:13-14
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    13 And shall receiue the wages of vnrighteousnes, as they which count it pleasure dayly to liue deliciously. Spottes they are and blottes, deliting them selues in their deceiuings, in feasting with you,

    14 Hauing eyes full of adulterie, and that can not cease to sinne, beguiling vnstable soules: they haue heartes exercised with couetousnesse, they are the children of curse:

  • 1 Tim 6:4-5
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    4 He is puft vp & knoweth nothing, but doteth about questions & strife of words, whereof commeth enuie, strife, railings, euill surmisings,

    5 Frowarde disputations of men of corrupt mindes & destitute of ye trueth, which thinke that gaine is godlines: from such separate thy selfe.

  • Prov 7:11
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    11 (She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.

  • 1 Tim 3:11
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    11 Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.

  • 1 Thess 4:11-12
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    11 And that ye studie to be quiet, & to meddle with your owne busines, and to worke with your owne handes, as we commaunded you,

    12 That yee may behaue your selues honestly towarde them that are without, and that nothing be lacking vnto you.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6 From the which things some haue erred, and haue turned vnto vaine iangling.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 Wherein it seemeth to them strange, that yee runne not with them vnto the same excesse of riot: therefore speake they euill of you,

  • 1 Tim 5:2
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    2 The elder women as mothers, the yonger as sisters, with all purenesse.

  • 2 Tim 2:16
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    16 Stay prophane, and vaine babblings: for they shall encrease vnto more vngodlinesse.

  • 1 Cor 14:35
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    35 And if they will learne any thing, let them aske their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speake in the Church.

  • Rom 1:29
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    29 Being full of all vnrighteousnesse, fornication, wickednes, couetousnes, maliciousnes, full of enuie, of murther, of debate, of deceit, taking all things in the euill part, whisperers,

  • 1 Tim 2:11
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    11 Let the woman learne in silence with all subiection.

  • Prov 31:27
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    27 She ouerseeth the wayes of her housholde, and eateth not the bread of ydlenes.

  • 1 Cor 5:10-11
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    10 And not altogether with the fornicatours of this world, or with the couetous, or with extorsioners, or with idolaters: for then ye must goe out of the world.

    11 But nowe I haue written vnto you, that ye companie not together: if any that is called a brother, be a fornicatour, or couetous, or an idolater, or a rayler, or a drunkard, or an extorsioner, with such one eate not.

  • Titus 3:14
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    14 And let ours also learne to shewe foorth good woorkes for necessary vses, that they be not vnfruitfull.

  • 1 Cor 5:1-2
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    1 It is heard certainely that there is fornication among you: and such fornication as is not once named among the Gentiles, that one should haue his fathers wife.

    2 And ye are puffed vp and haue not rather sorowed, that he which hath done this deede, might be put from among you.

  • 1 Cor 7:35
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    35 And this I speake for your owne commoditie, not to tangle you in a snare, but that yee followe that, which is honest, and that yee may cleaue fast vnto the Lord without separation.

  • 2 Pet 2:18
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    18 For in speaking swelling wordes of vanitie, they beguile with wantonnesse through the lusts of the flesh them that were cleane escaped from them which are wrapped in errour,

  • Titus 3:9
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    9 But stay foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and brawlings about the Lawe: for they are vnprofitable and vaine.

  • Prov 18:9
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    9 He also that is slouthfull in his worke, is euen the brother of him that is a great waster.

  • Eph 5:5
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    5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, neither vncleane person, nor couetous person, which is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdome of Christ, and of God.

  • 2 Tim 2:14
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    14 Of these things put them in remembrance, and protest before the Lord, that they striue not about wordes, which is to no profit, but to the peruerting of the hearers.

  • 1 Tim 4:7
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    7 But cast away prophane, and olde wiues fables, and exercise thy selfe vnto godlinesse.