Acts:17:15-34

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* They but conducting the Paul led him to Athens ; and having received a charge to the Silas and Timothy , that as soon as possible they should come to him , they departed . * In and the Athens waiting them of the Paul , was stirred up the spirit of him in him , beholding full of idols being the city . * He reasoned indeed then in the synagogue with the Jews and with those being pious , and in the market during every day with those happening to meet . * Some but of the Epicureans and of the Stoics philosophers encountered him ; and some said : What may intend the seed –picker this to say ? They said : Of strange demons he seems a proclaimer to be ; because the Jesus and the resurrection to them he announced glad tidings . * Having taken hold and of him to the Mars hill they led , saying : Are we able to know , what the new this that by thee being spoken teaching ? * Strange things for certain thou bringest to the ears of us . We desire therefore to know , what may intend these things to be . * Athenians and all and the sojourning strangers , in nothing else spend leisure , than to tell something and to hear newer . * Having stood up and the Paul in midst of the Mars hill , said : Men Athenians , in all things as it were worshippers of demons you I perceive ; * passing through for and beholding the objects of worship of you , I found also an altar , in which had been written : To an unknown God . Whom therefore not knowing you worship , this I announce to you . * The God that having made the world and all the things in it , this of heaven and earth Lord being not in hand made temples dwells , * nor by hands of men is served , wanting anything , he giving to all life and breath and the things all ; * made and out of one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth , having fixed having been appointed seasons and the fixed limits of the habitation of them ; * to seek the God , if indeed they might feel him and might find , and indeed not far from one each of us being . * In him for we live and are moved and we are ; as also some of those with you poets have said : Of the for also offspring we are . * Offspring therefore being of the God , not we are bound to suppose , gold or silver or stone , a sculpture of art and device of man , the Deity to be like . * The indeed therefore times of the ignorance overlooking the God , now he commands to the men all in all places to reform ; * because he established a day , in which he is about to judge the habitable in righteousness , by a man whom he appointed , a guarantee having furnished to all , having raised him out of dead ones . * Having heard and a resurrection of dead ones , these indeed mocked ; those but said : We will hear thee again about this . * And thus the Paul went out from midst of them . * Some but men having associated with him , believed ; among whom also Dionysius the Areopagite , and a woman by name Damaris , and others with them .

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