Acts 17:21

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

Ephesians 5:16

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

Colossians 4:5

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

2 Thessalonians 3:11-12

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.

1 Timothy 5:13

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.

2 Timothy 2:16-17

Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

(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.)

Bible References

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Ephesians 5:16
Making the most of every opportunity; for these are evil days.
Colossians 4:5
Show tact in your behavior to the outside world, making the most of every opportunity.
2 Thessalonians 3:11
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.
1 Timothy 5:13
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.
2 Timothy 2:16
Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways,