Bible verses about "busybodies" | MLV

² Because their heart meditates oppression and their lips talk of mischief.

⁸ But if anyone is not planning-for his own and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

¹⁶ You will not go up and down as a gossiper among your people, neither will you stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.

⁶ Now brethren, we are commanding you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to withdraw yourselves from every brother who is walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they received from us.

³ Likewise, teach elderly-women to be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, not having been enslaved to much wine, but teachers of what is good,

³ It is an honor for a man to cease from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

¹⁵ For let not anyone of you suffer like a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or like a meddler in the affairs of others.

¹¹ For we hear there are some who are walking disorderly among you, working at nothing, but are busybodies.

¹¹ and that you make it your aim to be living quiet lives and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands (just-as we commanded you),

¹³ Now at the same time, they also are learning to be idle, strolling the houses, and not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not to speak.