Acts 17:26-34 ▼

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.”

32 Now having heard of a resurrection of the dead, some indeed began mocking, but some said, “We will hear you concerning this again also.”

33 Thus Paul went out from their midst.

34 But some men, having joined themselves to him, believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.