Busybodies
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Busybodies (2 Occurrences)

2 Thessalonians 3:11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Timothy 5:13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)

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Busybodies (2 Occurrences)
...Busybodies (2 Occurrences). 2 Thessalonians 3:11 For we hear of some who walk among
you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies. ...
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Busy (13 Occurrences)
... (WEY). 2 Thessalonians 3:11 For we hear of some who walk among you in
rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies. (Root ...
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Busybody (3 Occurrences)
... bod-i (periergos, allotrioepiskopos): The word is found twice in Paulinic literature.:
1 Timothy 5:13, "not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies," and 2 ...
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Idle (33 Occurrences)
... 2 Thessalonians 3:11 For we hear that there are some of you who live disorderly
lives and are mere idle busybodies. (WEY RSV NIV). ...
/i/idle.htm - 18k

Undisciplined (3 Occurrences)
... NAS). 2 Thessalonians 3:11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion,
who don't work at all, but are busybodies. (See NAS). ...
/u/undisciplined.htm - 7k

Gadding (1 Occurrence)
... idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and
busybodies, saying things which they ought not. (See RSV). ...
/g/gadding.htm - 6k

Gossips (5 Occurrences)
... house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things
which they ought not. (WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV). 2 Timothy ...
/g/gossips.htm - 7k

Withal (38 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 5:13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house;
and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things ...
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Wandering (120 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 5:13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house;
and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things ...
/w/wandering.htm - 37k

Idleness (4 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). 2 Thessalonians 3:11 For we hear that there are some of you who live
disorderly lives and are mere idle busybodies. (See RSV). ...
/i/idleness.htm - 9k

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(n.) Plural of Busybody.
Greek
4020. periergazomai -- to waste one's labor about (a thing)
... Word Origin from peri and ergazomai Definition to waste one's labor about (a thing)
NASB Word Usage acting like busybodies (1). be a busybody. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4020.htm - 7k

4021. periergos -- overly careful, curious, meddling, subst. a ...
... Word Origin from peri and ergon Definition overly careful, curious, meddling,
subst. a busybody NASB Word Usage busybodies (1), magic (1). ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4021.htm - 7k

Library

1 Timothy v. 15-Nov
... 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 ...
/.../homily xv 1 timothy v.htm

2 Thessalonians iii. 5-Mar
... Ver.11. "For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all,
but are busybodies.". ... "That work not at all, but are busybodies. ...
/.../homily v 2 thessalonians iii.htm

Christ Compared with Socrates.
... were more ancient than Christ, when they attempted to consider and prove things
by reason, were brought before the tribunals as impious persons and busybodies. ...
/.../chapter x christ compared with socrates.htm

Laboring under Difficulties
... It was of this class that he afterward wrote: "There are some which walk among
you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. ...
/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 33 laboring under difficulties.htm

Rom. xiv. 25-27
... account. For we ought not with things of this nature to act as busybodies,
but to be well pleased and content with them. Wherefore ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xxvii rom xiv 25-27.htm

Galatians.
... behaviour and of doctrine, and the conceit of worldly knowledge; in the second,
the love of the brethren side by side with the disorderly conduct of busybodies ...
//christianbookshelf.org/jerome/the principal works of st jerome/galatians.htm

Ninth Commandment
... A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the
spirit, . . ." Bishop Hall said that the tongues of busybodies are like ...
//christianbookshelf.org/moody/weighed and wanting/ninth commandment.htm

Galatians Chapter ii.
... Therefore they looked round and observed accurately and made themselves busybodies
to find out who were uncircumcised; as Paul says, "they came in privily to ...
/.../galatians chapter ii.htm

Jewish views on Trade, Tradesmen, and Trades' Guilds
... not work, neither should he eat"; at the same time sternly rebuking "some who are
walking disorderly, who are not at all busy, but are busybodies" (we have ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 11 jewish views on.htm

Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.
... 320. Brutes, superior to man, [886]217. Bulimy, ravenous disease called,
[887]379. Busybodies, never satisfied, [888]379. Cain, envied ...
/.../homilies on philippians colossians and.htm

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Busybodies

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Leading (101 Occurrences)

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