Acts 17:22–29

The Areopagus Address

22 Then Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that you are extremely religious in every respect. 23 For as I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed:

TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.

Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and everything in it j—He is Lord of heaven and earth k and does not live in shrines made by hands. l 25 Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, m since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things. n 26 From one man o He has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live. p 27 He did this so they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. q 28 For in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ r s 29 Being God’s offspring then, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination. t