Acts 17:21 - English Standard Version 2016

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

(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.)

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For the Athenians, all of them, and the foreign residents and visitors among them spent all their leisure time in nothing except telling or hearing something newer than the last–

American Standard Version (1901)

(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)

Common English Bible

They said this because all Athenians as well as the foreigners who live in Athens used to spend their time doing nothing but talking about or listening to the newest thing.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

(Now all the Athenians, and arriving visitors, were occupying themselves with nothing other than speaking or hearing various new ideas.)

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

(Now all the Athenians, and strangers that were there, employed themselves in nothing else, but either in telling or in hearing some new thing.)

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Acts 17:15

Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.

Acts 17:16

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.

Acts 17:20

For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.”

Acts 2:10

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,

Ephesians 5:16

making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

Colossians 4:5

Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.