Acts 17:22–31

²²So Paul stood in the midst of the ¹Areopagus and said, “Men of ^aAthens, I observe that you are very ^breligious in all respects.

²³“For while I was passing through and examining the ^aobjects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what ^byou worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.

²⁴“^aThe God who made the world and all things in it, since He is ^bLord of heaven and earth, does not ^cdwell in temples made with hands;

²⁵nor is He served by human hands, ^aas though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

²⁶and ^aHe made from one man every nation of mankind to inhabit all the face of the earth, having ^bdetermined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

²⁷that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, ^athough He is not far from each one of us;

²⁸for ^ain Him we live and move and ¹exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His offspring.’

²⁹“Being then the offspring of God, we ^aought not to suppose that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the craft and thought of man.

³⁰“Therefore having ^aoverlooked ^bthe times of ignorance, God is ^cnow commanding men that everyone everywhere should repent,

³¹because He has fixed ^aa day in which ^bHe will judge ^1cthe world in righteousness ²through a Man whom He ^ddetermined, having furnished proof to all ³by ^eraising Him from the dead.”