For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters.
Meddler in other men's matters ... The word from which this comes is one of the most curious in the New Testament, Barclay surmising that "Peter may well have invented it."[22] "The word is [@allotriepiskopos]."[23] The last part of this word, of course, is the one from which we get the word "bishop"; and as the first part of it means "pertaining to others," it is clear enough that the word bears the translation, "bishop of other people's business"!  Peter not only forbade this on principle, but in the turbulence of those evil times, Christians would have found it exceedingly wise and prudent to avoid any kind of conduct with outsiders, or even contact with them, that could have resulted in their arraignment and death.