Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
Wandering
Busy-bodies
Speaking
General references
Bible References
To be
Proverbs 31:27
She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
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.
Wandering
Leviticus 19:16
"'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people; neither shall you stand against the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
Proverbs 20:19
He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore do not keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
Luke 10:7
Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house.
Acts 20:20
how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
Busy-bodies
2 Thessalonians 3:11
For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who do not work at all, but are busybodies.
1 Peter 4:15
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men's matters.
Speaking
Acts 20:30
Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Titus 1:11
whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.
James 3:10
Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
General references
Matthew 19:10
The disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."