²¹ (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.)

¹⁶ But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

¹⁷ and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: or whom is Hymenaeus an Philetus;

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

⁵ Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

¹¹ For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.

¹² Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

¹³ And withal they learn also `to be' idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.