Acts 17:21-27

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.

²⁶And from one blood He made every ethnic nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

²⁷so that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;