Acts 17:21

For all the Attenians and straungers which were there gave the selves to nothinge els but ether to tell or to heare newe tydynges.

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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 bringest straunge tydynges to oure eares. We wolde knowe therfore what these thinges meane.

22Paul stode in the myddes of Marse strete and sayde: ye men of Attens I perceave that in all thinges ye are to supersticious.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:16redemynge the tyme: for the dayes are evyll.

2 Thessalonians 3:11We have hearde saye no doute that ther are some which walke amonge you inordinatly and worke not at all but are besy bodies.

2 Timothy 2:16Vngostly and vayne voyces passe over. For they shall encreace vnto greater vngodlynes

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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