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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,
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
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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."
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When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some scoffed; but others said, "We will hear you again about this."
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At that point Paul left them.
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But some of them joined him and became believers, including Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.