Acts 17:21 Cross References - WNT

²¹ (For all the Athenians and their foreign visitors used to devote their whole leisure to telling or hearing about something new.)

¹⁶ Buy up your opportunities, for these are evil times.

⁵ Behave wisely in relation to the outside world, buying up your opportunities.

¹¹ For we hear that there are some of you who live disorderly lives and are mere idle busybodies. ¹² To persons of that sort our injunction--and our command by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ--is that they are to work quietly and eat their own honestly-earned bread.

¹³ And at the same time they also learn to be idle as they go round from house to house; and they are not only idle, but are gossips also and busybodies, speaking of things that ought not to be spoken of.

¹⁶ But from irreligious and frivolous talk hold aloof, for those who indulge in it will proceed from bad to worse in impiety, ¹⁷ and their teaching will spread like a running sore. Hymenaeus and Philetus are men of that stamp.