Acts 17:22-27

Christian Standard Bible

The Areopagus Address

²² Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “People of Athens! I see that you are extremely religious in every respect. ²³ For as I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, ‘To an Unknown God.’ Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. ²⁴ The God who made the world and everything in it^(A)—he is Lord of heaven and earth^(B)—does not live in shrines made by hands.^{(C) 25} Neither is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything,^(D) since he himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.^{(E) 26} From one man^[a] he has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.^{(F) 27} He did this so that they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.^(G)