11 and to make it your ambition (A)to lead a quiet life and (B)attend to your own business and (C)work with your hands, just as we instructed you,

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11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands,(A) just as we told you,

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11 For we hear that some among you are (A)leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like (B)busybodies.

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11 We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies.(A)

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13 At the same time they also learn to be idle, as they go around from house to house; and not merely idle, but also they become (A)gossips and (B)busybodies, talking about (C)things not proper to mention.

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13 Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies(A) who talk nonsense,(B) saying things they ought not to.

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