Acts 17:22-31 ▼

22 And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, was saying, “Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you? as very religious.

23 For passing through and examining your? objects of worship, I even found an altar on which had been inscribed: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore whom you? worship without knowing, this I proclaim to you?.

24 The God having made the world and all things that are in it, He, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in hand-made temples,

25 nor is He served by hands of men as needing anything—He who gives to all life and breath and all things.

26 And He made out of one man every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined the appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

27 to seek God, if perhaps indeed they might feel after Him and might find Him. And indeed, He is not far from each one of us.

28 ‘For in Him we live and move and are.’ As also some of the poets among you? have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

29 Therefore, being offspring of God, we ought not to consider the Divine Being to be like gold or silver or stone, a graven thing of man’s craft and imagination.

30 Indeed, therefore, God, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commands all men everywhere to repent,

31 because He set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He appointed, having provided a guarantee to all, having raised Him out from the dead.”