New Revised Standard Version
Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there would spend their time in nothing but telling or hearing something new.

Contemporary English Version
More than anything else the people of Athens and the foreigners living there loved to hear and to talk about anything new.

New American Bible
Now all the Athenians as well as the foreigners residing there used their time for nothing else but telling or hearing something new.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(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 strangers that were there employed themselves in nothing else, but either in telling or in hearing some new thing.)

spent.

Ephesians 5:16 But as wise: redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Colossians 4:5 Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time.

2 Thessalonians 3:11,12 For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly: working not at all, but curiously meddling. . . .

1 Timothy 5:13 And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

2 Timothy 2:16,17 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they grow much towards ungodliness. . . .