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16 KJV Bible Verses About Minding Your Own Business

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  • 1 Thessalonians 4:11 tells believers to “do your own business”, and verse 12 gives the reasons: a good name with outsiders and lack of nothing.
  • In 2 Thessalonians 3:11 the Greek for busybodies, periergazomai, is built on the verb for working, and Paul’s remedy is quiet work.
  • 1 Peter 4:15 lists the busybody, allotriepiskopos, an overseer of other people’s affairs, beside the murderer and the thief.
  • Leviticus 19:16 forbids going about as a talebearer, and the next verse commands rebuking a neighbour directly.
  • In John 21:22 Jesus answers Peter’s question about another disciple with “what is that to thee? follow thou me.”

The Bible tells believers to mind their own business, and says so in nearly those words. Paul asks the Thessalonians to “study to be quiet, and to do your own business” (1 Thessalonians 4:11). Paul names busybodies in the churches (2 Thessalonians 3:11, 1 Timothy 5:13), and Peter lists the busybody beside the murderer and the thief (1 Peter 4:15). Proverbs warns against the meddler (Proverbs 26:17) and the talebearer (Proverbs 11:13), and Jesus answers Peter’s question about another disciple…

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Scripture quotations are from the King James Version.

Strong’s Greek 4020, περιεργάζομαι (periergazomai): to meddle, to be a busybody; from peri and ergazomai, to work all around. biblehub.com/greek/4020

Strong’s Greek 244, ἀλλοτριεπίσκοπος (allotriepiskopos): meddler, busybody; from allotrios and episkopos. biblehub.com/greek/244

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