Acts:17:15-34
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But those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens :
and receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him with all speed ,
they departed .
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Now while Paul waited for them at Athens ,
his spirit was provoked inside him as he looked at the city full of idols .
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So he reasoned in the synagogue with Jews and the devout persons ,
and in the marketplace every day with those who met him .
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And certain also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him .
And some said ,
What would this babbler say ?
Others ,
He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods :
because he preached [
the good news of ]
Jesus and the resurrection .
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And they took hold of him ,
and brought him to the Areopagus ,
saying ,
May we know what this new teaching is ,
which is spoken by you ?
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For you bring certain strange things to our ears :
we would know therefore what these things mean .
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Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else ,
but either to tell or to hear some new thing .)
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And Paul stood among the Areopagus ,
and said ,
Men ,
Atheneans ,
in all things ,
I perceive that you (
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are very religious .
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For as I passed along ,
and observed the objects of your (
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worship ,
I found also an altar with this inscription ,
TO AN UNKNOWN GOD .
What therefore you {+}
worship in ignorance ,
this I set forth to you {+}.
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The God who made the world and all things in it ,
he ,
being Lord of heaven and earth ,
does not dwell in temples made with hands ;
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neither is he served by men '
s hands ,
as though he needed anything ,
seeing he himself gives to all life ,
and breath ,
and all things ;
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and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth ,
having determined [
their ]
appointed seasons ,
and the bounds of their habitation ;
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that they should seek God ,
if perhaps they might feel after him and find him ,
though he is not far from each one of us :
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for in him we live ,
and move ,
and have our being ;
as certain even of your (
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own poets have said ,
For we are also his offspring .
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Being then the offspring of God ,
we ought not to think that the divine nature is like gold ,
or silver ,
or stone ,
graven by art and device of man .
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The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked ;
but now he commands men that they should all everywhere repent :
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inasmuch as he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has appointed ;
he has given assurance of this to all men ,
in that he has raised him from the dead .
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Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead ,
some mocked ;
but others said ,
We will hear you concerning this yet again .
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Thus Paul went out from among them .
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But certain men stuck [
close ]
to him ,
and believed :
among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite ,
and a woman named Damaris ,
and others with them .