1 Timothy 5:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³And 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.

1 Timothy 5:13 —

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Proverbs 20:19
He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
2 Thessalonians 3:6-11
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. …
Acts 20:30
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Proverbs 31:27
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Acts 20:20
And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,

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Busybody Commandments Discipleship Disobedience to God Dowry Duty Law Meddling

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 3-16)

Directions are here given concerning the taking of widows into the number of those who were employed by the church and had maintenance from the church: Honour widows that are widows indeed. Honour them, that is, maintain them, admit them into office. There was in those times an office in the church in which widows were employed, and that was to tend the sick and the aged, to look to them by the di…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. withal--“at the same time, moreover.” learn--usually in a good sense. But these women’s “learning” is idleness, trifling, and busybodies’ tattle. wandering--Greek, “going about.” from house to house--of the members of the Church (2Ti 3:6). “They carry the affairs of this house to that, and of that to this; they tell the affairs of all to all” [Theophylact]. tattlers--literally “trifling talker…