Acts 17:26-33

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.’

²⁹Since we are his family we shouldn't think that God is like gold, or silver, or stone, shaped by human artistry and thinking.

³⁰God disregarded people's ignorance in the past, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent.

³¹For he has set a time when he will rightly judge the world by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone that he is the one by raising him from the dead.”

³²Some of them laughed when they heard about the resurrection of the dead, while others said, “Please come back so we can hear more about this later.”

³³So Paul left them.