Acts 17:22-34 ▼

22 And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, “Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;

23 for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I also found an altar on which had been inscribed: To God—unknown; whom, therefore—not knowing—you worship, this One I announce to you.

24 God, who made the world, and all things in it, this One, being Lord of Heaven and of earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,

25 neither is He served by the hands of men—needing anything, He giving life to all, and breath, and all things;

26 He also made every nation of man of one blood, to dwell on all the face of the earth—having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings—

27 to seek the LORD, if perhaps they felt after Him and found, though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

28 for in Him we live, and move, and are; as certain of your poets have also said: For we are also His offspring.

29 Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, [an] engraving of art and imagination of man;

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

31 because He set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a Man whom He ordained, having given assurance to all, having raised Him out of the dead.”

32 And having heard of a resurrection of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, “We will hear you again concerning this”;

33 and so Paul went forth from the midst of them,

34 and certain men having cleaved to him, believed, among whom [is] also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them.