¹³ And besides they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, ^(A)for the sake of dishonest gain.

Warning Against Idleness

⁶ But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^(A)that you withdraw ^(B)from every brother who walks ^(C)disorderly and not according to the tradition which ^[a]he received from us. ⁷ For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we were not disorderly among you; ⁸ nor did we eat anyone’s bread ^[b]free of charge, but worked with ^(D)labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, ⁹ not because we do not have ^(E)authority, but to make ourselves an example of how you should follow us.

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. ¹¹ For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are ^(F)busybodies.

¹⁰ Therefore, if I come, I will call to mind his deeds which he does, ^(A)prating^[a] against us with malicious words. And not content with that, he himself does not receive the brethren, and forbids those who wish to, putting them out of the church.

¹⁵ But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a ^[a]busybody in other people’s matters.

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.

³⁰ Also ^(A)from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking ^[a]perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

²⁰ how ^(A)I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house,