Acts 17:22

New International Version

²²Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus^(A) and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.^(B)

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Acts 25:19

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¹⁹Instead, they had some points of dispute^(A) with him about their own religion^(B) and about a dead man named Jesus who Paul claimed was alive.

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Acts 19:35

New International Version

³⁵The city clerk quieted the crowd and said: “Fellow Ephesians,^(A) doesn’t all the world know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven?

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Acts 17:16

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In Athens

¹⁶While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.

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Jeremiah 50:38

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³⁸A drought on^[a] her waters!^(A)
They will dry^(B) up.
For it is a land of idols,^(C)
idols that will go mad with terror.

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 50:38 Or A sword against

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Jeremiah 10:2-3

New International Version

²This is what the Lord says:

“Do not learn the ways of the nations^(A)
    or be terrified by signs^(B) in the heavens,
    though the nations are terrified by them.
³For the practices of the peoples are worthless;
    they cut a tree out of the forest,
    and a craftsman^(C) shapes it with his chisel.^(D)