The King James Version Bible

Bible Verses About Busybodies

  • 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.
  • For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
  • And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
  • But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
  • It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
  • Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
  • Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
  • For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
  • The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;