Acts 17:22-31

American Standard Version

²² And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said,

Ye men of Athens, in all things I perceive that ye are ^[a]very religious. ²³ For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, To an Unknown God. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this I set forth unto you. ²⁴ The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in ^[b]temples made with hands; ²⁵ neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; ²⁶ and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation; ²⁷ that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us: ²⁸ for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said,

For we are also his offspring. ²⁹ Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that ^[c]the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man. ³⁰ The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he ^[d]commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent: ³¹ inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge ^[e]the world in righteousness ^[f]by ^[g]the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.