| 17:23 | For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you. |
| 17:24 | “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. |
| 17:25 | And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. |
| 17:26 | From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. |
| 17:27 | God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. |
| 17:28 | ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ |
| 17:29 | “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone–an image made by man’s design and skill. |
| 17:30 | In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. |
| 17:31 | For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.” |
| 17:32 | When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.” |
Unknown God – Acts 17:23
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