Acts 17:21
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.)
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- 2 Tim 2:16-17 : 16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. 17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
- Eph 5:16 : 16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
- Col 4:5 : 5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
- 2 Thess 3:11-12 : 11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. 12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
- 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
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15And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.
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17Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
18Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, 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 resurrection.
19And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
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1Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;