11 and to aspire (A)to live quietly, and (B)to mind your own affairs, and (C)to work with your hands, as we instructed you,

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11 For we hear that some among you (A)walk in idleness, not busy at work, but (B)busybodies.

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13 Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also (A)gossips and (B)busybodies, saying what they should not.

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