Acts 17:19-25

¹⁹So taking him in tow they led him to the Areopagus and said: “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

²⁰Because you are bringing some strange things to our ears, and we would like to know what they might mean.”

²¹(Now all Athenians and resident foreigners spent their time in nothing else but to tell, or else to hear, some novelty.)

²²So standing in the middle of the Areopagus Paul said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious;

²³because as I went along and scrutinized the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO UNKNOWN GOD. Now then, the one you worship as ‘unknown’, this is the One I proclaim to you:

²⁴The God who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples built by hands,

²⁵neither is He cared for by men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself has always given life and breath to all.