Acts 17:21

(Now all the Athenians and the men from other lands who come there were giving all their time to talking or hearing of anything new.)

Bible in Basic English

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 you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.

22And Paul got to his feet on Mars' Hill and said, O men of Athens, I see that you are overmuch given to fear of the gods.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:16Making good use of the time, because the days are evil.

2 Thessalonians 3:11For it has come to our ears that there are some among you whose behaviour is uncontrolled, who do no work at all, but are over-interested in the business of others.

2 Timothy 2:16But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

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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