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Acts 17:21

19 So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

20 For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”

Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

22 Then Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.

23 For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.
KJV
(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.)
WEB
Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
ASV
(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)
DARBY
Now all [the] Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else than to tell and to hear the news.
BLB
Now all the Athenians and the visiting foreigners spent their time on nothing other than to say something and to hear something new.
ÅB
Alle atenerne og utlendingene som bodde der gjorde ikke annet enn å fortelle eller høre nytt.
OTB
(Alle athenerne og de fremmede som bodde der, brukte tiden til ikke annet enn å snakke om og lytte til de siste ideene.)
B1930
Men alle atenere og de fremmede som opholdt sig der, gav sig ikke stunder til annet enn å fortelle eller høre nytt.

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