1 Timothy 5:13

At the same time, they also learn how to be lazy while going from house to house. Not only this, but they even become gossips and keep busy by interfering in other people's lives, saying things they should not say.

Proverbs 20:19

Whoever spreads gossip betrays confidences; so don't get involved with someone who talks too much.

Titus 1:11

They must be silenced, because they are the kind of people who ruin whole families by teaching what they should not teach in order to make money in a shameful way.

1 Peter 4:15

Of course, none of you should suffer for being a murderer, thief, criminal, or troublemaker.

Leviticus 19:16

"You are not to go around slandering your people. "You are not to stand idle when your neighbor's life is at stake. I am the LORD.

Proverbs 31:27

She looks discretely to the affairs of her household, and she is never lazy.

Luke 10:7

Stay with the same family, eating and drinking whatever they provide, because the worker deserves his pay. Don't move from house to house.

Acts 20:20

I never shrank from telling you anything that would help you nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house.

Acts 20:30

Indeed, some of your own men will arise and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them.

2 Thessalonians 3:6-11

In the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is living in idleness and not living according to the tradition that they received from us.

James 3:10

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. It should not be like this, my brothers!

3 John 1:10

For this reason, when I come I will call attention to what he is doing in spreading false charges against us. And not content with that, he refuses to receive the brothers. He even tries to stop those who want to accept them and throws them out of the church.

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.

General references

Bible References

To be

Proverbs 31:27
She looks discretely to the affairs of her household, and she is never lazy.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
In the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is living in idleness and not living according to the tradition that they received from us.

Wandering

Leviticus 19:16
"You are not to go around slandering your people. "You are not to stand idle when your neighbor's life is at stake. I am the LORD.
Proverbs 20:19
Whoever spreads gossip betrays confidences; so don't get involved with someone who talks too much.
Luke 10:7
Stay with the same family, eating and drinking whatever they provide, because the worker deserves his pay. Don't move from house to house.
Acts 20:20
I never shrank from telling you anything that would help you nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house.

Busy-bodies

2 Thessalonians 3:11
We hear that some of you are living in idleness. You are not busy working you are busy interfering in other people's lives!
1 Peter 4:15
Of course, none of you should suffer for being a murderer, thief, criminal, or troublemaker.

Speaking

Acts 20:30
Indeed, some of your own men will arise and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them.
Titus 1:11
They must be silenced, because they are the kind of people who ruin whole families by teaching what they should not teach in order to make money in a shameful way.
James 3:10
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. It should not be like this, my brothers!

General references

Matthew 19:10
His disciples asked him, "If that is the relationship of a man with his wife, it's not worth getting married!"

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