Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians, and the foreigners who dwell alien there, were at leisure in nothing else, than to tell or to hear something new.

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In The King James Version

(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.)

In Context

20For thou bring some surprising things to our ears. Therefore, we want to know whatever these things aim to be.

22And having stood in the middle of the Areopagus, Paul said, Athenian men, I perceive you as deity-fearing in all things.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

2 Thessalonians 3:11For we hear of some who walk among you disorderly, not working at all, but being busybodies.

2 Timothy 2:16But shun profane babblings, for they will advance to greater impiety,

Matthew Henry on Acts 17:17-22

Paul at Athens. 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. 17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. 18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the… Read the whole commentary →

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