Acts 17:21

They said that, because the people of Athens and also the people from other regions who lived there continually talked about what was new to them, or they listened to others tell what was new.

Translation for Translators

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

20You are teaching some things that startle us (exc), so we want to know what they mean.”

22Then Paul stood up before the men of the city council and said, “Citizens of Athens, I see that you ◄are very religious/think that it is very important to worship many gods►.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:16Use your time carefully, because these days [MTY] people do extremely evil deeds.

2 Thessalonians 3:11We are commanding the same thing again now, because someone has told us that some of you are lazy and not working at all, just interfering with what other people are doing!

2 Timothy 2:16◄Stay away from/Do not talk with► those who talk foolishly and ◄ godlessly/say things that displease God►, because those who talk foolishly will become even more ◄ungodly/displeasing to 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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