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21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)
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21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)
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22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.
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22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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28 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
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28 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
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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.
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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.
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30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
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30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
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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."
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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."
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Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
