Acts 17:24–34

²⁴The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man, ²⁵nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything. ²⁶And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation, ²⁷that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us, ²⁸for

‘In him we live and move and have our being’;

as even some of your poets have said,

‘For we are indeed his offspring.’ ²⁹Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of man. ³⁰The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent, ³¹because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all men by raising him from the dead.”

³²Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We will hear you again about this.” ³³So Paul went out from among them. ³⁴But some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Are-opagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.