NASB
"(Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)"
— Acts 17:21, NASB
“(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.)”
“(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.) ”
“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.”
“(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)”
“(Now all the Athenians and strangers that were there employed themselves in nothing else, but either in telling or in hearing some new thing.)”
“(Now all the Athenians and the men from other lands who come there were giving all their time to talking or hearing of anything new.)”
“(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.)”
And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,"--because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming?
"For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean."
(Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)
So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects.
"For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.
"The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;