Acts 17:21 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

²¹ (All Athenians and the foreigners staying in the city found no time for anything else but telling, or listening to, the last new thing.)

¹⁶ Making the most of every opportunity; for these are evil days.

⁵ Show tact in your behavior to the outside world, making the most of every opportunity.

¹¹ We hear that there are among you people who are living ill- ordered lives, and who, instead of attending to their own business, are mere busy-bodies. ¹² All such people we urge, and entreat, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to attend quietly to their business, and earn their own living.

¹³ And not only that, but they learn to be idle as they go about from house to house. Nor are they merely idle, but they also become gossips and busy-bodies, and talk of what they ought not.

¹⁶ Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways, ¹⁷ and their teaching will spread like a cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are instances of this.