Acts 17:19-30

¹⁹having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought him, saying, 'Are we able to know what is this new teaching that is spoken by thee,

²⁰for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

²¹and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.

²²And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, 'Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;

²³for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God — unknown; whom, therefore — not knowing — ye do worship, this One I announce to you.

²⁴'God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,

²⁵neither by the hands of men is He served — needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;

²⁶He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth — having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings —

²⁷to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, — though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

²⁸for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

²⁹'Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;

³⁰the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,