Acts 17:21

New Testament · SCRIPTURE

Acts 17:21

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

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KJV

King James Version

(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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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

American Standard Version

(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.)

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

Now all [the] Athenians and the visiting strangers spent their time on nothing other than to say something and to hear something new.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Acts 17

¹⁹ So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

²⁰ For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”

²¹ Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

²² Then Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.

²³ For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

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