Acts 17:21-28

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.’