¹⁵ “Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human,^(A) like you. We are bringing you good news,^(B) telling you to turn from these worthless things^(C) to the living God,^(D) who made the heavens and the earth^(E) and the sea and everything in them.^{(F) 16} In the past, he let^(G) all nations go their own way.^{(H) 17} Yet he has not left himself without testimony:^(I) He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons;^(J) he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”^(K)

²³ For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship^(A)—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

²⁴ “The God who made the world and everything in it^(B) is the Lord of heaven and earth^(C) and does not live in temples built by human hands.^{(D) 25} And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.^{(E) 26} From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.^{(F) 27} God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.^{(G) 28} ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’^[a](H) As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’^[b]

²⁹ “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.^{(I) 30} In the past God overlooked^(J) such ignorance,^(K) but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.^{(L) 31} For he has set a day when he will judge^(M) the world with justice^(N) by the man he has appointed.^(O) He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”^(P)