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They took him and brought him to the Areopagus, and said, "May we learn about this new teaching you're speaking of?
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For what you say sounds strange to us, and we want to know what these ideas mean."
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Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time on nothing else but telling or hearing something new.
The Areopagus Address
22 Then Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that you are extremely religious in every respect.
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For as I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.
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The God who made the world and everything in it-He is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in shrines made by hands.
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Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.
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From one man He has made every nation of men to live all over the earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live,
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so that they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.
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For in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.' Gk poet.
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Being God's offspring, then, we shouldn't think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.