Acts 17:21

(Now all the Athenians and foreign visitors in Athens used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to the latest new thing out.)

Ephesians 5:16

and continue to make the most of your opportunities, for the times are evil.

Colossians 4:5

Practice living prudently in your relations with outsiders, making the most of your opportunities.

2 Thessalonians 3:11-12

But we are informed that some among you are living as shirkers, mere busybodies, instead of busy at work.

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides, as they get the habit of gadding about from house to house, they learn to be idle, and not only idle but gossips and busybodies, talking of things they ought not to mention.

2 Timothy 2:16-17

Continue shunning worldly, futile phrases, for they lead on to greater depths of godlessness,

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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.)

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Ephesians 5:16
and continue to make the most of your opportunities, for the times are evil.
Colossians 4:5
Practice living prudently in your relations with outsiders, making the most of your opportunities.
2 Thessalonians 3:11
But we are informed that some among you are living as shirkers, mere busybodies, instead of busy at work.
1 Timothy 5:13
Besides, as they get the habit of gadding about from house to house, they learn to be idle, and not only idle but gossips and busybodies, talking of things they ought not to mention.
2 Timothy 2:16
Continue shunning worldly, futile phrases, for they lead on to greater depths of godlessness,