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 is watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,
Wandering
Leviticus 19:16
Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am Jehovah.
Proverbs 20:19
A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver with his lips make not thyself surety.
Luke 10:7
And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things they have, for worthy is the workman of his hire; go not from house to house,
Acts 20:20
how nothing I did keep back of what things are profitable, not to declare to you, and to teach you publicly, and in every house,
Busy-bodies
2 Thessalonians 3:11
for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,
1 Peter 4:15
for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;
Speaking
Acts 20:30
and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Titus 1:11
whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
James 3:10
out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;
General references
Matthew 19:10
His disciples say to him, 'If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'