SCRIPTURE
Acts 17: 22-31
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Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, "Athenians, I see how
extremely religious you are in every way. 23 For as I went through the city and
looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar
with the inscription, 'To an unknown god.' What therefore you worship as
unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and everything in
it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human
hands, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since
he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. 26 From one
ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the
times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live,
27 so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find
him--though indeed he is not far from each one of us. 28 For 'In him we live and
move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we too
are his offspring.' 29 Since we are God's offspring, we ought not to think that
the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and
imagination of mortals. 30 While God has overlooked the times of human
ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has
fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man
whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him
from the dead."