Acts 17:22-31

Tree of Life Version

²² So Paul stood in the middle of the Aereopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in all ways you are very religious. ²³ For while I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an Unknown God.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing, this I proclaim to you. ²⁴ The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth,^[a] does not live in temples made by hands. ^{[b] 25} Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything,^[c] since He Himself gives to everyone life and breath and all things. ^{[d] 26} From one He made every nation of men to live on the face of the earth, having set appointed times and the boundaries of their territory. ^{[e] 27} They were to search for Him, and perhaps grope around for Him and find Him. Yet He is not far from each one of us, ^{[f] 28} for ‘In Him we live and move and have our being.’

As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His offspring.’ ^{[g] 29} Since we are His offspring, we ought not to suppose the Deity is like gold or silver or stone, an engraved image of human art and imagination. ^{[h] 30} Although God overlooked the periods of ignorance, now He commands everyone everywhere to repent. ³¹ For He has set a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness, through a Man whom He has appointed.^[i] He has brought forth evidence of this to all men, by raising Him from the dead.”