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 does not 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 disorderly, and not after the teaching which he received from us.
Wandering
Leviticus 19:16
You shall not go as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.
Proverbs 20:19
A gossip is a revealer of secrets; so do not mix with him who flatters with his lips.
Luke 10:7
And remain in the same house, eating and drinking the things shared by them; for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Do not move from house to house.
Acts 20:20
and how I kept back nothing that was profitable, but have shown you and have taught you publicly, and from house to house,
Busy-bodies
2 Thessalonians 3:11
For we hear that there are some who walk disorderly among you, not working at all, but being busybodies.
1 Peter 4:15
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or a meddler in the affairs of others.
Speaking
Acts 20:30
Also men shall arise from your own selves, speaking perverse things in order to draw disciples away after them.
Titus 1:11
whose mouth you must stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things not right for the sake of ill gain.
James 3:10
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
General references
Matthew 19:10
His disciples said to Him, If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not good to marry.