<p>3:11 <i>For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that do not work at all but are busybodies</i>- &quot;Busybodies&quot; is literally 'working around'; we have here a word play, literally &lsquo;not busy, but busy&rsquo;. Human beings have to do something with themselves all day. One blessing which came out of the Edenic curse of working in order to procreate and survive is that most people are thereby kept &lsquo;busy&rsquo; and don&rsquo;t fall into major sin. With the unequal distribution of wealth which there is in many societies and the attempts of social welfare systems to redistribute it, there has arisen a subclass of the very rich and of the very poor who don&rsquo;t have to work; and the amount of work others are required to do has in some ways been lessened by technological advances and the concept of retirement. The result of this is that people become &ldquo;busybodies&rdquo;- their busy-ness becomes focused on destructive meddling in others&rsquo; lives, often through the internet under the guise of social networking. I suggested on 1 Tim. 5:13 that the busybodies of Ephesus were in fact false teachers; it was these women who were forbidden from going around teaching their Judaist ideas in the house churches (1 Tim. 2:12, see note there).</p>