Acts 17:21 Cross References - Thomson

²¹ Now all the Athenians, and the foreigners who reside among them, spent their leisure time in nothing else but in telling and hearing news.

¹⁶ redeeming the time. Because these are evil days,

⁵ Walk in wisdom towards them who are without, redeeming the time.

¹¹ For we hear that there are some among you who walk disorderly, doing no work, but busying themselves impertinently. ¹² Now we charge such, and intreat them by the Lord Jesus Christ, to work quietly, and eat their own bread.

¹³ Add to this, that, being idle, they learn to ramble from house to house, and are not only idle, but are indeed tatlers, and intermedlers, speaking tilings which are unbecoming.

¹⁶ And repress those profane empty declamations; for they will proceed on to farther impiety; ¹⁷ and like a gangrene the word of these men will spread, of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus,