2 Thessalonians 3:11
Good News Translation
We say this because we hear that there are some people among you who live lazy lives and who do nothing except meddle in other people's business.

New Revised Standard Version
For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.

Contemporary English Version
Now we learn that some of you just loaf around and won't do any work, except the work of a busybody.

New American Bible
We hear that some are conducting themselves among you in a disorderly way, by not keeping busy but minding the business of others.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly: working not at all, but curiously meddling.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly: working not at all, but curiously meddling.

walk.

2 Thessalonians 3:6 And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they have received of us.

working.

1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your own business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want nothing of any man's.

1 Timothy 5:13 And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

1 Peter 4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a railer or coveter of other men's things.

Context
Warning against Irresponsibility
10For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat. 11For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly: working not at all, but curiously meddling. 12Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread.…
Cross References
Ephesians 4:28
He that stole, let him now steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.

2 Thessalonians 3:6
And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they have received of us.

1 Timothy 5:13
And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

1 Peter 4:15
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a railer or coveter of other men's things.

2 Thessalonians 3:10
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