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,