Acts 17:24-29

Christian Standard Bible

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) 28} For in him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’^{(H) 29} Since, then, we are God’s offspring, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.^(I)