8 Bible Verses about Minding Your Own Business

to study your own quiet, to mind your own affairs, and follow some handicraft trade, as we recommended it to you:

besides, having nothing to do, they get the habit of rambling from one house to another, and are not only idling, but prattle and intermeddle, and utter what is not decent.

take care therefore not to suffer upon the account of homicide, or thievery, or for any criminal, or pragmatical practices.

let him that stole, steal no more: but rather let him labour, to encrease his fortune with his own hands, that he may have wherewithal to relieve the needy:

let no man consult only his private interest, but let every man consult likewise the interest of others.

but in the internal qualities of the mind, in that purity, in that mild and dispassionate temper, which is so acceptable to the divine being.

Let our brethren too learn some honest profession to supply their occasions, that they may not be destitute of an income.

for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in the practice of all piety and virtue;