Acts 17:21-32

²¹Now all the Athenians, and the strangers residing among them, spent their leisure for nothing else but to tell or to hear something new.

²²Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Men of Athens, in all things I perceive that ye are very devout.

²³For while passing along and observing your objects of worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, “To an unknown God.” What therefore ye, without knowledge of it, worship, that do I make known to you.

²⁴The God who made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

²⁵nor doth he receive service at the hands of men, as though he needed anything, since it is he that giveth to all life and breath and all things.

²⁶And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having fixed appointed times, and the bounds of their habitation;

²⁷that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he is not far from every 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.”

²⁹Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Deity is like to gold or silver or stone, graven by the art and device of man.

³⁰The times indeed of ignorance God overlooked; but now commandeth all men every where to repent;

³¹inasmuch as he hath fixed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he hath appointed; having given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.

³²And when they heard of a resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but ethers said, We will hear thee again about this matter.