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Acts 17:23-31

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23I walked around this town and I saw a lot of statues that you set up, to show respect to a lot of gods. And I saw another stone that you set up, and you wrote on it, ‘This is for that god that we don’t know.’ Hey, you show respect to him even though you don’t know him. But I do know him, so now I want to tell you all about him. I’ll tell you about that God that you don’t know.
24He is the God that made all the world, and he made everything in the world. He is the boss of everybody everywhere. He is boss up in the sky and he is boss down here on the ground. So nobody can build a house big enough for him to live in.
25And he doesn’t need us to do anything for him. You see, he is the one that makes us alive, and he gives us our breath, and he gives us everything we need.
26At first he just made one man, then later we all came from that man, all of us in every tribe everywhere came from that man. God gave each tribe their own country, and he said where they can live and how long they can live there.
27He did this so that we can look around for him and try to find him. But really, he is not very far away from any of us.
28That old story is true that says, ‘He is with us all the time. He is the one that makes us alive, so that we can walk about and do things.’ And even one of your own Athens people wrote this about him, ‘We are his kids.’
29So, if it is true that we are God’s kids, we shouldn’t just dream up something and say, ‘My god looks like this,’ and then make a statue like that from gold or silver or stone. Nobody can make any kind of statue that is anything like God.
30You know, people didn’t know about God at first, but he didn’t worry about it at that time. But now it is different. Now he says to all of us that we have to turn around and stop doing bad things,
31and if we don’t, he will give us big trouble. He is going to have a big court and all of us will have to stand in front of the judge. He has already set the date for this. It will be a fair court and he has picked one man to be the judge. That man died, but God made him alive again. God did that to show everybody he picked that man to be the big judge.”

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