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.