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Acts - ch 17 v 21 - 34
- (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.)
- And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, Ye men of Athens, in all things, I perceive that ye are very religious.
- For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this I set forth unto you.
- The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
- neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
- 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;
- that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us:
- for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
- Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.
- The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:
- inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
- Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, We will hear thee concerning this yet again.
- Thus Paul went out from among them.
- But certain men clave unto him, and believed: among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
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