7 Bible Verses about Busybodies

For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others.

And besides that, going around from house to house they learn to be lazy, and they are not only lazy, but also gossips and busybodies, talking about things they should not.

Like one who grabs a wild dog by the ears, so is the person passing by who becomes furious over a quarrel not his own.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or as a troublemaker.

For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others. Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat.

It is an honor for a person to cease from strife, but every fool quarrels.

You thoroughly defeated Edom and it has gone to your head! Gloat over your success, but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?"