Acts 17:21 Cross References - Lamsa

²¹ (For all the Athenians and the strangers who were there, were uninterested in anything except something new to tell or to hear.)

¹⁶ Who take advantage of their opportunity, for these are difficult days.

⁵ Live wisely in peace with those who are outside the church, and avoid offending.

¹¹ For we hear that there are some men among you who lead an evil life, and do not work at all, but are busybodies. ¹² Now it is these people that we command and exhort by our LORD Jesus Christ, that they work quietly and eat their own bread.

¹³ And with it all, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only to be idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

¹⁶ Shun empty and worthless words, for they only increase the ungodliness of those who argue over them. ¹⁷ And their word will be like a canker eating in many: such are Hy-me-nµÆus, and PhileÆtus,