Acts 17:22
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Paul Addresses the Areopagus
22 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.
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Acts 25:19
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19 Rather they (A)had certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about (B)a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.
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Acts 19:35
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35 And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from (A)the sky?[a]
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- Acts 19:35 The meaning of the Greek is uncertain
Acts 17:16
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Paul in Athens
16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was (A)provoked within him as he saw that the city was (B)full of idols.
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Jeremiah 50:38
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38 (A)A drought against her waters,
that they may be dried up!
(B)For it is a land of images,
and they are mad over idols.
Jeremiah 10:2-3
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2 Thus says the Lord:
“Learn not the way of the nations,
nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens
because the nations are dismayed at them,
3 (A)for the customs of the peoples are vanity.[a]
(B)A tree from the forest is cut down
and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 10:3 Or vapor, or mist
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