Verse 13

and at the same time also, they learn `to be' idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:19 : 19 A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver `with' his lips make not thyself surety.
  • Prov 31:27 : 27 She `is' watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
  • 1 Pet 4:15 : 15 for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;
  • 3 John 1:10 : 10 because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.
  • Jas 3:10 : 10 out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;
  • Luke 10:7 : 7 `And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things they have, for worthy `is' the workman of his hire; go not from house to house,
  • Acts 20:20 : 20 how nothing I did keep back of what things are profitable, not to declare to you, and to teach you publicly, and in every house,
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
  • 2 Thess 3:6-9 : 6 And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us, 7 for yourselves have known how it behoveth `you' to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you; 8 nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you; 9 not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us; 10 for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat, 11 for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,
  • Lev 19:16 : 16 `Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I `am' Jehovah.