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Acts 17:14-31

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14And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go to the sea; but Silas and Timothy remained there.
15And they who conducted Paul brought him to Athens; and having received a commandment to Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.
16Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, when he saw the city full of idols.
17Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout Greeks, and in the market daily with those that met him.
18And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, What doth this babbler mean to say? and others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of foreign gods; because he brought the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection.
19And they took him and brought him to Mars' hill, saying, May we know what this new doctrine is, of which thou speakest?
20For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We would know therefore what these things mean.
21Now all the Athenians, and the strangers residing among them, spent their leisure for nothing else but to tell or to hear something new.
22Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Men of Athens, in all things I perceive that ye are very devout.
23For while passing along and observing your objects of worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, “To an unknown God.” What therefore ye, without knowledge of it, worship, that do I make known to you.
24The God who made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25nor doth he receive service at the hands of men, as though he needed anything, since it is he that giveth to all life and breath and all things.
26And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having fixed appointed times, and the bounds of their habitation;
27that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he is not far from every one of us.
28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as also some of your own poets have said: “For we are also his offspring.”
29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Deity is like to gold or silver or stone, graven by the art and device of man.
30The times indeed of ignorance God overlooked; but now commandeth all men every where to repent;
31inasmuch as he hath fixed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he hath appointed; having given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.

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