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.
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He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
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. …
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
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,
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 d…
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