Acts 17:21
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.
In context
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.
Acts 17:21 in every translation
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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.)
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Now all [the] Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else than to tell and to hear the news.
- WBS Webster Bible
- (For all the Athenians and strangers who were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)