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Acts 17:22

& So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects.

Acts 17:23

& ~"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.

Acts 17:24

& ~"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;

Acts 17:25

& nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all {people} life and breath and all things;

Acts 17:26

& and He made from one {man} every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined {their} appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

Acts 17:27

& that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

Acts 17:28

& for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, `For we also are His children.'

Acts 17:29

& ~"Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

Acts 17:30

& ~"Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all {people} everywhere should repent,

Acts 17:31

& because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead."

Acts 17:32

& Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some {began} to sneer, but others said, "We shall hear you again concerning this."

Acts 17:33

& So Paul went out of their midst.