Acts:17:15-34
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And they that conducted Paul ,
brought him as far as Athens :
and having received an order for Silas and Timothy ,
that they should come to him as soon as possible ,
they set out .
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Now ,
while Paul was waiting for them at Athens ,
his spirit within him was strongly moved when he beheld the city enslaved to idolatry .
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He therefore reasoned with the Jews and proselytes in the synagogue ;
and in the forum ,
daily ,
with those who met with him .
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Then some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers opposed him .
Others said ,
What would this babbler say ?
And others ,
he seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities ;
because he declared to them the good news concerning Jesus and the resurrection .
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And they took him and conducted him to the Areopagus ,
saying ,
May we know what this new doctrine is ,
which is spoken by you ?
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for you bring some strange things to our ears ;
we would ,
therefore ,
know what these things mean .
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For all the Athenians ,
and the strangers that sojourned among them spent their leisure in nothing else but in telling or hearing news .
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Paul ,
therefore ,
standing up in the middle of Areopagus ,
said ,
Athenians ,
I perceive that you are exceedingly addicted to the worship of demons .
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For ,
as I passed along ,
and beheld the objects of your worship ,
I found an altar with this inscription ,
To the Unknown God :
Him ,
therefore ,
you ignorantly worship ,
I announce to you .
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The God who made the world ,
and all things that are in it ,
being the Lord of heaven and earth ,
dwells not in temples made with hands :
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Neither is he served by human hands ,
as if he stood in need of anything ;
he himself giving to all ,
life ,
and breath ,
and all things .
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And he has made of one blood ,
the whole race of men ,
to inhabit all the face of the earth ;
having marked out the times previously arranged in order ,
and the boundaries of their habitations :
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that they might seek after the Lord ,
if possibly they might feel after him ,
and find him ;
though he be not far from every one of us :
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for in him we live ,
and are moved ,
and do exist ;
as some of your own poets have said-For we his offspring are .»
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We ,
therefore ,
being the offspring of God ,
ought not to imagine the Deity to be like gold ,
or silver ,
or stone ,
wrought by the art and contrivance of man .
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For though God overlooked the times of ignorance ,
he now makes proclamation to all men ,
everywhere ,
to reform ;
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because he has appointed a day ,
in which he will judge the world righteously ,
by that Man whom he has ordained :
of which he has given assurance to all men ,
by raising him from the dead .
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And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead ,
some made a jest of it ,
and others said ,
We will hear you again upon this subject .
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And this Paul went out of the midst of them .
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Nevertheless ,
some men adhered to him ,
and believed :
among whom was Dionysius ,
the Areopagite ;
also a woman ,
whose name was Damaris ;
and others with them .
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