For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
Busybodies. In the Greek х meeden (G3367) ergazomenous (G2038) alla (G235) periergazomenous (G4020)] the similar sounds mark the antithesis, 'Doing none of their own business, yet over busy in that of others.' Idleness is the parent of busybodies (1 Timothy 5:13). Contrast 1 Thessalonians 4:11.