Minding your Own Business

…and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.

Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.

At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.

Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them. He was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper to ask, “Lord, who is going to betray You?” …

How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think on these things.

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

For each one should carry his own load.