Bible Verses About Minding Your Own Business
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for minding your own business, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,224 votes, led by 1 Thessalonians 4:11. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Minding Your Own Business
1 Thessalonians 4:11633 votes
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
Proverbs 26:17391 votes
He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
1 Timothy 5:13304 votes
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.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12266 votes
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
John 21:20-22190 votes
Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?
Luke 6:42183 votes
Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.
Romans 14:4166 votes
Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
1 Peter 4:15151 votes
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.
Philippians 4:8137 votes
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Romans 14:12110 votes
So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
Galatians 6:5105 votes
For every man shall bear his own burden.
Romans 14:1-1291 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Ecclesiastes 4:674 votes
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Matthew 7:3-556 votes
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Proverbs 17:1451 votes
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Ezekiel 18:4-3251 votes
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
1 Corinthians 5:1247 votes
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
Ephesians 4:2847 votes
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
1 Thessalonians 4:1-1844 votes
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Proverbs 20:343 votes
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Acts 2:2841 votes
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
1 Peter 4:15-1640 votes
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.
Luke 1:3737 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
1 Corinthians 4:1232 votes
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
1 Corinthians 11:3132 votes
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
What does the Bible say about minding your own business?
Readers most often cite 1 Thessalonians 4:11 on the subject of minding your own business. Across 4,224 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 26:17, 1 Timothy 5:13, 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.