Acts 17:21

(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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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

20We're hearing from you things that sound odd to us, so we'd like to know what they mean.”

22Paul stood up right in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “People of Athens, I notice you are very religious about everything.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:16making the best use of opportunities because the days are evil.

2 Thessalonians 3:11But now we hear that there are some lazy busybodies among you who don't work at all.

2 Timothy 2:16Avoid pointless chatter because people who do this are heading away from God.

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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