Acts 17:21

Now, all Athenians and the sojourning foreigners, unto nothing else, were devoting their leisure, than to be telling or hearing, something newer.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, certain foreign things, art thou bringing into our hearing: We are minded to get to know, therefore, what these things please to be!

22And Paul taking his stand in the midst of the Hill of Mars, said—Ye men of Athens! In every way, how unusually reverent of the demons ye are, I perceive.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:16Buying out for yourselves the opportunity, because, the days, are evil;

2 Thessalonians 3:11We hear, in fact, of some who are walking among you in a disorderly way, at nothing, working, yet too busily working!

2 Timothy 2:16But, the profane pratings, shun; for, unto more ungodliness, will they force themselves on;

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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