Busybodies

and at the same time also, they learn <FI>to be<Fi> idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;

An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

`Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

and he answering said to them--`Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, hypocrites, as it hath been written, This people with the lips doth honour Me, and their heart is far from Me;

The words of a tale-bearer <FI>are<Fi> as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down <FI>to<Fi> the inner parts of the heart.

He also that is remiss in his work, A brother he <FI>is<Fi> to a destroyer.

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

`And if he may not hear them, say <FI>it<Fi> to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

Every saying of God <FI>is<Fi> tried, A shield He <FI>is<Fi> to those trusting in Him.

Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.

and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any;

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and `Worthy <FI>is<Fi> the workman of his reward.'

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house, Lest he be satiated <FI>with<Fi> thee, and have hated thee.

because of this become not fools, but--understanding what <FI>is<Fi> the will of the Lord,

and the possessions and the goods they were selling, and were parting them to all, according as any one had need.

and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.

And there are also many other things--as many as Jesus did--which, if they may be written one by one, not even the world itself I think to have place for the books written. Amen.

Many indeed, therefore, other signs also did Jesus before his disciples, that are not written in this book;

he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

The whole thing which I am commanding you--it ye observe to do; thou dost not add unto it, nor diminish from it.

He who is having an ear--let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming, I will give to him to eat from the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, that no one knew except him who is receiving <FI>it<Fi> .

He who is having an ear--let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming--I will give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.

And concerning the collection that <FI>is<Fi> for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also ye--do ye;

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

`And now, Israel, hearken unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah God of your fathers is giving to you. — read the full passage →

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

He who is having an ear--let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: He who is overcoming may not be injured of the second death.

`I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming--the Almighty.'

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

And on the first of the week, the disciples having been gathered together to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them, about to depart on the morrow, he was also continuing the discourse till midnight,

No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

And lo, one having come near, said to him, `Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have life age-during?'

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

Laying hold on the ears of a dog, <FI>Is<Fi> a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry, — read the full passage →

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat, — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

`And why dost thou behold the mote that <FI>is<Fi> in thy brother's eye, and the beam that <FI>is<Fi> in thine own eye dost not consider? — read the full passage →

who did testify the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many things also as he did see.

one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou--who art thou that dost judge the other?

for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working, — read the full passage →

As to the rest, pray ye, brethren, concerning us, that the word of the Lord may run and may be glorified, as also with you, — read the full passage →

have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?

to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place--both theirs and ours:

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →

for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

and many of those who had practised the curious arts, having brought the books together, were burning <FI>them<Fi> before all; and they reckoned together the prices of them, and found <FI>it<Fi> five myriads of silverlings;

And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian, — read the full passage →

and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting,

That disciple, therefore, whom Jesus was loving saith to Peter, `The Lord it is!' Simon Peter, therefore, having heard that it is the Lord, did gird on the outer coat, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea;

out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

and all the people were coming unto him, and having sat down, he was teaching them;

And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;'

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

A busybody is revealing secret counsel, And the faithful of spirit is covering the matter.