Acts 17:21

and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.

Literal Standard Version

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 bring certain strange things to our ears? We resolve, then, to know what these things would wish to be”;

22And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, “Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;

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Cross References

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

2 Thessalonians 3:11for we hear of some walking disorderly among you, working nothing, but being busybodies,

2 Timothy 2:16and stand aloof from the profane vain talkings, for they will advance to more 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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