Acts 17:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.

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  • 2 Tim 2:16-17 : 16 and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance, 17 and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,
  • Eph 5:16 : 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil;
  • Col 4:5 : 5 in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;
  • 2 Thess 3:11-12 : 11 for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working, 12 and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;
  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 and at the same time also, they learn `to be' idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

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