Acts 17:19-30

¹⁹And taking hold of him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is you speak about?

²⁰For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we desire to know what these things might mean.”

²¹Now all the Athenians and the strangers staying there as visitors spent their time in nothing other than to say or to hear some new thing.

²²Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men, Athenians, according to all things I perceive you as being very religious;

²³for as I passed by and considered the objects of your worship, I found also an altar on which it had been inscribed: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, Him whom being ignorant of you worship, this One I announce to you:

²⁴The God who made the world and all the things in it, He being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,

²⁵nor by the hands of men is He served, as though He needed anything, for He gives to all life and breath with respect to all things.

²⁶And He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, and He ordained their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

²⁷in order for them to seek the Lord, if perhaps indeed they might grope for Him and find Him, and yet being indeed not far from each 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.’

²⁹Therefore, being the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and the imagination of man.

³⁰So then these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all men everywhere to repent,