Acts 17:19–27
19They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?↗
20For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”↗
21Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.↗
22Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.↗
23For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.↗
24The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.↗
25He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.↗
26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings,↗
27that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.↗
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