Acts 17:21

(For all the Athenians and their foreign visitors used to devote their whole leisure to telling or hearing about something new.)

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 the things you are saying sound strange to us. We should therefore like to be told exactly what they mean."

22So Paul, taking his stand in the centre of the Areopagus, spoke as follows: "Men of Athens, I perceive that you are in every respect remarkably religious.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:16Buy up your opportunities, for these are evil times.

2 Thessalonians 3:11For we hear that there are some of you who live disorderly lives and are mere idle busybodies.

2 Timothy 2:16But from irreligious and frivolous talk hold aloof, for those who indulge in it will proceed from bad to worse in 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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