Acts 17:22–31

²²And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, ‘Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious; ²³for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God—unknown; whom, therefore—not knowing—ye do worship, this One I announce to you.

²⁴‘God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell, ²⁵neither by the hands of men is He served—needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things; ²⁶He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth—having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings— ²⁷to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find,—though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us, ²⁸for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

²⁹‘Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man; ³⁰the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform, ³¹because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.’