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Selected Verse: 1 Peter 4:15 - King James

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1Pe 4:15 King James But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
But--Greek, "For." "Reproached in the name of Christ" I say (Pe1 4:14), "FOR let none," &c.

as . . . as . . . as . . . as--the "as" twice in italics is not in the Greek. The second Greek, "as," distinguishes the class "busybody in other men's matters," from the previous class of delinquents. Christians, from mistaken zeal, under the plea of faithfulness, might readily step out of their own calling and make themselves judges of the acts of unbelievers. Literally, "a bishop in what is (not his own, but) another's" province; an allusion to the existing bishops or overseers of the Church; a self-constituted bishop in others' concerns.
 
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14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
13 And 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.
11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
14 And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
13 And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.