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Acts 17:16-34

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16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was troubled within him when he saw that the city was full of idols.
16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.
17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with those who worshiped God, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.
17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.
18 Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, "What is this pseudo-intellectual trying to say?" Others replied, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities"-because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
18 A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others remarked, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
19 They took him and brought him to the Areopagus, and said, "May we learn about this new teaching you're speaking of?
19 Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
20 For what you say sounds strange to us, and we want to know what these ideas mean."
20 You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.”
21 Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time on nothing else but telling or hearing something new.
21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)
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.
22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.
23 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.
23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.
24 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.
24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.
25 Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.
25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
26 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,
26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.
27 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.
27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.
28 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.
28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
29 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.
29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.
30 "Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent,
30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
31 because He has set a day on which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by the Man He has appointed. He has provided proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead."
31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
32 When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to ridicule him. But others said, "We will hear you about this again."
32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.”
33 So Paul went out from their presence.
33 At that, Paul left the Council.
34 However, some men joined him and believed, among whom were Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
34 Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.
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