²²So Paul stood there in the middle of the Areopagus and^* said, “Men of Athens, I see you are very religious in every respect.^h ²³For as I^* was passing through and observing carefully your objects of worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, ‘To an unknown God.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it,^* this I proclaim to you—²⁴the God who made the world and all the things in it. This one, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, ²⁵nor is he served by human hands as if he^* needed anything, because^* he himself gives to everyone life and breath and everything. ²⁶And he made from one man every nation of humanity to live on all the face of the earth, determining their fixed times and the fixed boundaries of their habitation, ²⁷to search for God, if perhaps indeed they might feel around for him and find him.^* And indeed he is not far away from each one of us, ²⁸for in him we live and move and exist,ⁱ as even some of your own^j poets have said: ‘For we also are his^k offspring.’^l ²⁹Therefore, because we^* are offspring of God, we ought not to think the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought. ³⁰Therefore although^* God has overlooked the times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent, ³¹because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness by the man who he has appointed, having provided proof to everyone by^* raising him from the dead.”

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Acts 17:24–25: The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything …

Footnotes

*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“stood there”) has been translated as a finite verb
hLiterally “with respect to all things”
*Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was passing through”) which is understood as temporal
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here “as if” is supplied as a component of the conditional adverbial participle (“needed”)
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“gives”) which is understood as causal
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
iSome interpreters hold that the phrase “in him we live and move and exist” is a quotation from Epimenides of Crete, but more likely it is a traditional Greek formula
jLiterally “with respect to you”
kLiterally “of him”
lA quotation from Aratus, Phaenomena 5
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as causal
*Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“has overlooked”) which is understood as concessive
*Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“raising”) which is understood as means