1 Timothy 5:13
And not only that, but they learn to be idle as they go about from house to house. Nor are they merely idle, but they also become gossips and busybodies, and talk of what they ought not.
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In Context
12and so they bring condemnation on themselves for having broken their previous promise.
Cross References
Luke 10:7Remain at that same house, and eat and drink whatever they offer you; for the worker is worth their wages. Do not keep changing from one house to another.
Acts 20:30and from among yourselves, too, people will arise, who will teach perversions of truth, so as to draw away the disciples after them.
Titus 1:11They need to be kept quiet as they disrupt whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, simply to make shameful financial gain.
1 Peter 4:15I need hardly say that no one among you must suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or a criminal, or for interfering in matters which do not concern Christians.
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 5:4-17
Directions Concerning Widows. ( a. d. 64.) 3 Honour widows that are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. 5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. 6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. 7 And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless. 8 But if any provide not… Read the whole commentary →