11 Bible Verses about Minding Your Own Business

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

Laying hold on the ears of a dog, Is a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.

and at the same time also, they learn to be idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;

The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,

Better is a handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and vexation of spirit.'