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But in Athens, while Paul was waiting for them, his spirit was painfully excited in him seeing the city given up to idolatry.
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He reasoned therefore in the synagogue with the Jews, and those who worshipped, and in the market-place every day with those he met with.
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But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection [to them].
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And having taken hold on him they brought [him] to Areopagus, saying, Might we know what this new doctrine which is spoken by thee [is]?
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For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.
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Now all [the] Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else than to tell and to hear the news.
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And Paul standing in the midst of Areopagus said, Athenians, in every way I see you given up to demon worship;
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for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye reverence, not knowing [him], him I announce to you.
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The God who has made the world and all things which are in it, *he*, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,
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nor is served by men's hands as needing something, himself giving to all life and breath and all things;
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and has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, having determined ordained times and the boundaries of their dwelling,