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.
But - `For.' 'Reproached in the name of Christ,' I say (1 Peter 4:14), 'FOR let none,' etc.
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 delinquents. Christians, from mistaken zeal, under the plea of faithfulness, might make themselves judges of the acts of unbelievers. х Allotriepiskopos (G244), 'a bishop in what is (not his own, but) another's province; an allusion to the existing bishops of the Church; a self-constituted overseer in others' concerns.]