Acts 17:22-31

New American Standard Bible

Sermon on Mars Hill

²² So Paul stood in the midst of the ^[a]Areopagus and said, “Men of ^(A)Athens, I see that you are very ^(B)religious in all respects. ²³ For while I was passing through and examining the ^(C)objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore, what ^(D)you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. ^24 (E)The God who made the world and everything that is in it, since He is ^(F)Lord of heaven and earth, does not ^(G)dwell in temples made by hands; ²⁵ nor is He served by human hands, ^(H)as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; ²⁶ and ^(I)He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having ^(J)determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, ²⁷ that they would seek God, if perhaps they might feel around for Him and find Him, ^(K)though He is not far from each one of us; ²⁸ for ^(L)in Him we live and move and ^[b]exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His descendants.’ ²⁹ Therefore, since we are the descendants of God, we ^(M)ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought. ³⁰ So having ^(N)overlooked ^(O)the times of ignorance, God is ^(P)now proclaiming to mankind that all people everywhere are to repent, ³¹ because He has set ^(Q)a day on which ^(R)He will judge ^[c](S)the world in righteousness ^[d]through a Man whom He has ^(T)appointed, having furnished proof to all people ^[e]by ^(U)raising Him from the dead.”