Acts 17:21

(For all the Athenians and their foreign visitors used to devote their whole leisure to telling or hearing about something new.)

Ephesians 5:16

Buy up your opportunities, for these are evil times.

Colossians 4:5

Behave wisely in relation to the outside world, buying up your opportunities.

2 Thessalonians 3:11-12

For we hear that there are some of you who live disorderly lives and are mere idle busybodies.

1 Timothy 5:13

And at the same time they also learn to be idle as they go round from house to house; and they are not only idle, but are gossips also and busybodies, speaking of things that ought not to be spoken of.

2 Timothy 2:16-17

But from irreligious and frivolous talk hold aloof, for those who indulge in it will proceed from bad to worse in impiety,

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
Buy up your opportunities, for these are evil times.
Colossians 4:5
Behave wisely in relation to the outside world, buying up your opportunities.
2 Thessalonians 3:11
For we hear that there are some of you who live disorderly lives and are mere idle busybodies.
1 Timothy 5:13
And at the same time they also learn to be idle as they go round from house to house; and they are not only idle, but are gossips also and busybodies, speaking of things that ought not to be spoken of.
2 Timothy 2:16
But from irreligious and frivolous talk hold aloof, for those who indulge in it will proceed from bad to worse in impiety,