Acts 17:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Timothy 2:16-17
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. …
Colossians 4:5
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
Ephesians 5:16
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
2 Thessalonians 3:11-12
For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. …
1 Timothy 5:13
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.

Topics

Athens Diligence Greece Idleness Labor Mars' Hill Rising Self-Indulgence

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-21)

A scholar that has acquaintance, and is in love, with the learning of the ancients, would think he should be very happy if he were where Paul now was, at Athens, in the midst of the various sects of philosophers, and would have a great many curious questions to ask them, for the explication of the remains we have of the Athenian learning; but Paul, though bred a scholar, and an ingenious active ma…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

18-21. certain ... of the Epicureans--a well-known school of atheistic materialists, who taught that pleasure was the chief end of human existence; a principle which the more rational interpreted in a refined sense, while the sensual explained it in its coarser meaning. and of the Stoics--a celebrated school of severe and lofty pantheists, whose principle was that the universe was under the law of…