Acts 17:22
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22 Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely spiritual you are in every way.
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Acts 25:19
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19 Instead, they had certain points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died but whom Paul asserted to be alive.(A)
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Acts 19:35
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35 But when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Citizens of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple keeper of the great Artemis and of the statue that fell from heaven?(A)
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Acts 17:16
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Paul in Athens
16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed to see that the city was full of idols.(A)
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Jeremiah 50:38
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38 A drought against her waters,
that they may be dried up!
For it is a land of images,
and they go mad over idols.(A)
Jeremiah 10:2-3
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2 Thus says the Lord:
Do not learn the way of the nations
or be dismayed at the signs of the heavens,
for the nations are dismayed at them.(A)
3 For the customs of the peoples are false:
a tree from the forest is cut down
and worked with an ax by the hands of an artisan;(B)
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