Acts 17:24-31

24 ¹The God who made the world and everything in it, being ²Lord of heaven and earth, ³does not live in temples made by man,^[a]

25 nor is he served by human hands, ⁴as though he needed anything, since he himself ⁵gives to all mankind ⁶life and breath and everything.

26 And ⁷he made from one man every nation of mankind to live ⁸on all the face of the earth, ⁹having determined allotted periods and ¹⁰the boundaries of their dwelling place,

27 ¹¹that they should seek God, in the hope that ¹²they might feel their way toward him and find him. ¹³Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,

28 for ¹⁴"'In him we live and move and have our being';^[b]as even some of ¹⁵your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.'^[c]

29 ¹⁶Being then God's offspring, ¹⁷we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.

30 ¹⁸The times of ignorance ¹⁹God overlooked, but ²⁰now he ²¹commands all people everywhere to repent,

31 because he has fixed ²²a day on which ²³he will judge the world ²⁴in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and ²⁵of this he has given assurance to all ²⁶by raising him from the dead."

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 42:5; See Acts 14:15
• 2. Matthew 11:25; [Deuteronomy 10:14; Psalms 115:16]
• 3. See Acts 7:48
• 4. Psalms 50:8-12; [1 Chronicles 29:14, 16; Job 22:2]
• 5. 1 Timothy 6:17; James 1:5, 17
• 6. Genesis 2:7; Genesis 7:22; Job 33:4; [Job 27:3; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Zechariah 12:1]; See ver. 28
• 7. [Genesis 3:20; Malachi 2:10]
• 8. Genesis 11:8; Luke 21:35
• 9. [Job 12:23; Job 14:5]
• 10. Deuteronomy 32:8; [Psalms 74:17]
• 11. [Acts 15:17]
• 12. [Job 23:3, 8, 9]
• 13. [Deuteronomy 4:7; Psalms 145:18; Jeremiah 23:23, 24]; See Acts 14:17
• 14. Job 12:10; Daniel 5:23; [Hebrews 2:11]
• 15. [Titus 1:12]
• 16. [Luke 3:38; Hebrews 12:9]
• 17. Isa. 40:18, 19, 25; Isaiah 46:5; [Romans 1:23]
• 18. Ephesians 4:18; 1 Peter 1:14; [ver. 23]
• 19. [Romans 3:25]; See Acts 14:16
• 20. [Mark 1:15; Titus 2:11, 12; 1 Peter 4:3]
• 21. Mark 6:12
• 22. Matthew 12:36; Romans 2:16; 1 Corinthians 3:13; 2 Peter 2:9; 1 John 4:17; [Isaiah 2:12]
• 23. 2 Timothy 4:8; See Acts 10:42
• 24. Psalms 9:8; Psalms 96:13; Psalms 98:9; 1 Peter 2:23; [Romans 3:6]
• 25. [John 16:10, 11; Romans 1:4]
• 26. See Acts 2:24

Footnotes

• [a]. Greek made by hands
• [b]. Probably from Epimenides of Crete
• [c]. From Aratus's poem "Phainomena"