11 Bible Verses about Minding Your Own Business
Most Relevant Verses
and that ye study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you:
Whoso goeth by and meddleth with other men's strife, he is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
And also they learn to go from house to house idle, yea not idle only, but also trifling and busybodies, speaking things which are not comely.
See that none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or an evil doer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
He that soweth discord and strife, is like one that diggeth up a water brook; but an open enemy is like the water that breaketh out and runneth abroad.
Let him that stole, steal no more; but let him rather labour with his hands some good thing, that he may have to give unto him that needeth.
and that no man consider his own, but what is mete for others.
but let the hid man of the heart be uncorrupt, with a meek and a quiet spirit, which spirit is, before God, a thing much set by.
And let ours also learn to excel in good works as far forth as need requireth, that they be not unfruitful.
for kings, and for all that are in authority that we may live a quiet and a peaceable life, in all godliness and honesty.
"One handful," sayeth he, "is better with rest, than both the hands full with labor and travail."