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Acts 17:21

WEB

21Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

KJV

21(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

BSB

21Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

FBV

21(All the Athenians, including foreigners who lived there, spent their whole time doing nothing except explaining or listening to something new.)

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Extra References

2 Timothy 2:16-17

16But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness, 17and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus:


Colossians 4:5

5Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.


Ephesians 5:16

16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.


1 Timothy 5:13

13Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.


2 Thessalonians 3:11-12

11For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies. 12Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.