Acts 17:25-34

25 nor is He served by human hands, ¹as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

26 and ²He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having ³determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, ⁴though * He is not far from each one of us;

28 for ⁵in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His children.'

29 "Being then the children of God, we ⁶ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

30 "Therefore having ⁷overlooked ⁸the times of ignorance, God is ⁹now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,

31 because He has fixed ¹⁰a day in which ¹¹He will judge ¹²the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has ¹³appointed, having furnished proof to all men by ¹⁴raising Him from the dead."

32 Now when they heard of ¹⁵the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, "We shall hear you again * concerning this."

33 So Paul went out of their midst.

34 But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the ¹⁶Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.

Cross References

• 1. Job 22:2; Psalms 50:10-12
• 2. Malachi 2:10
• 3. Deuteronomy 32:8; Job 12:23
• 4. Deuteronomy 4:7; Jeremiah 23:23; Acts 14:17
• 5. Job 12:10; Daniel 5:23
• 6. Isaiah 40:18f; Romans 1:23
• 7. Acts 14:16; Romans 3:25
• 8. Acts 17:23
• 9. Luke 24:47; Acts 26:20; Titus 2:11
• 10. Matthew 10:15
• 11. Psalms 9:8; Psalms 96:13; Psalms 98:9; John 5:22, 27; Acts 10:42
• 12. Matthew 24:14; Acts 17:6
• 13. Luke 22:22
• 14. Acts 2:24
• 15. Acts 17:18, 31
• 16. Acts 17:19, 22

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "are"
• [b]. Lit "the inhabited earth"
• [c]. Lit "by" or "in"
• [d]. Or "when He raised"
• [e]. Lit "also again"