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.
The expression "belonging to another" literally refers to those who make themselves overseers of other men’s matters (Luke 12:13-14). We are again speaking of a temptation or a problem. In that Christians are to be zealous in reaching out to others, Peter warns against an ever present danger of overstepping one’s bounds. We are not to busy ourselves in that which does not concern us (Philippians 2:4; 2 Thessalonians 3:11; 1 Timothy 5:13; John 2:21-22). We have not outgrown our need for this instruction!