Acts:17:15-34

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* But those conducting Paul brought him as far as Athens . And receiving a command to Silas and Timothy that they come to him quickly , they departed . * But awaiting them in Athens , Paul 's spirit was pained within him , seeing the city full of images . * Then , indeed , he addressed the Jews in the synagogue , and those worshiping , also in the market every day , to those happening to be there . * And some of the Epicureans and of the Stoics , philosophers , fell in with him . And some said , What may this chatterer wish to say ? And these others , He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons (because he announced Jesus and the resurrection to them ). * And taking hold of him , they led him to the Areopagus , saying , Are we able to know what is this new doctrine being spoken by you ? * For you bring startling things to our ears . We are minded , then , to know what these things wish to be . * And all Athenians and the strangers living there have leisure for nothing else than to say and to hear newer things . * And standing in the middle of the Areopagus , Paul said , Men , Athenians , I see how you in everything are fearful of gods ; * for passing through and looking up at the objects of your worship , I also found an altar on which had been written , TO AN UNKNOWN GOD . Not knowing , then , whom you worship , I make Him known to you . * The God who made the world and all things in it , this One being Lord of Heaven and of earth , does not dwell in handmade temples , * nor is served by hands of men , as having need of anything . For He is giving life and breath and all things to all . * And He made every nation of men of one blood , to live on all the face of the earth , ordaining fore-appointed seasons and boundaries of their dwelling , * to seek the Lord , if perhaps they might feel after Him and might find Him , though indeed He not being far from each one of us . * For in Him we live and move and exist , as also some of the poets among you have said , For we are also His offspring . * Then being offspring of God , we ought not to suppose that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone , engraved by art and the imagination of man . * Truly , then , God overlooking the times of ignorance , now strictly commands all men everywhere to repent , * because He set a day in which "He is going to judge the habitable world in righteousness ," by a Man whom He appointed ; having given proof to all by raising Him from the dead . Psa . strkjv @9:8 * And hearing of a resurrection of the dead , some indeed ridiculed , but said , We will hear you again concerning this . * And so Paul went out from their midst . * But some men believed , joining themselves to him , among whom also were both Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris , and others with them .

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