Acts 17:23-31

²³For as I was going about, looking at your sacred shrines, I came upon an altar with this inscription — ‘To an Unknown God.’ What, therefore, you worship in ignorance, that I am now proclaiming to you.

²⁴The God who made the world and all things that are in it — he, Lord as he is of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by hands,

²⁵neither do human hands minister to his wants, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives, to all, life, and breath, and all things.

²⁶He made all races of the earth's surface — fixing a time for their rise and fall, and the limits of their settlements —

²⁷That they might search for God, if by any means they might feel their way to him and find him. And yet he is not really far from any one of us;

²⁸for in him we live and move and are. To use the words of some of your own poets — ‘His offspring, too, are we.’

²⁹Therefore, as the offspring of God, we must not think that the Deity has any resemblance to anything made of gold, or silver, or stone — a work of human art and imagination.

³⁰True, God looked with indulgence on the days of people's ignorance, but now he is announcing to everyone everywhere the need for repentance,

³¹because he has fixed a day on which he intends to judge the world with justice, by a man whom he has appointed — and of this he has given all people a pledge by raising this man from the dead.”