²¹ 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.

¹⁶ But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

¹⁷ and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

⁵ Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

¹¹ For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.

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

¹³ Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.