Bible verses about "busybodies" | WEB

² for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

⁸ But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

¹⁶ “‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

³ and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

⁶ Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

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

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

¹¹ For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

¹¹ and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

¹³ Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.