Busybody
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General scriptures concerning
Lev 19:16; Prov 20:3; 2 Thess 3:11, 12; 1 Tim 5:13; 1 Pet 4:15
16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:163 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Proverbs 20:311 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
2 Thessalonians 3:1112 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
2 Thessalonians 3:1213 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
1 Timothy 5:1315 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
1 Peter 4:15 - See Talebearer
- See Speaking, evil
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
