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Acts 17:16-28

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16While Paul was waiting for them in Athens he was very troubled to see all the idolatry in the city.
17He debated in the synagogue with the Jews and those who worshiped God, as well as in the marketplace with those he happened to meet from day to day.
18Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also argued with him. “What is he going on about?” they wondered. Others concluded, “He seems to be teaching about some foreign gods,” because he was speaking about Jesus and the resurrection.
19So they took him to the Areopagus, and asked him, “Please tell us about this new teaching that you're promoting.
20We're hearing from you things that sound odd to us, so we'd like to know what they mean.”
21(All the Athenians, including foreigners who lived there, spent their whole time doing nothing except explaining or listening to something new.)
22Paul stood up right in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “People of Athens, I notice you are very religious about everything.
23As I was walking along, looking at your shrines, I found an altar that had the inscription, ‘To an Unknown God.’ This unknown God whom you worship is the one I'm describing to you.
24The God who created the world and everything in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't live in temples we make.
25He doesn't need to be served by us as if he needed anything, since he is the source of all life for every living being.
26From one man he made all the peoples who live on the earth, and decided beforehand when and where they should live.
27God's purpose was that they should seek him, hoping they would reach out for him and find him—though he isn't far from any one of us.
28In him we live, move, and exist. Just as one of your own poets wrote, ‘We are his family.’

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