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Acts 17:21
Acts 17:21 is verse 21 of Acts chapter 17, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.
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.)
World English Bible
Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
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Acts 17:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible
19 So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
20 For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
21 Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.
22 Then Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.
23 For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Ephesians 5:16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Colossians 4:5Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.
2 Thessalonians 3:11Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.
2 Thessalonians 3:12We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.
1 Timothy 5:13At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.
2 Timothy 2:16But avoid irreverent, empty chatter, which will only lead to more ungodliness,
2 Timothy 2:17and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,