Almeida Atualizada (Portuguese) AA
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16 Enquanto Paulo os esperava em Atenas, revoltava-se nele o seu espírito, vendo a cidade cheia de ídolos.
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While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.
17 Argumentava, portanto, na sinagoga com os judeus e os gregos devotos, e na praça todos os dias com os que se encontravam ali.
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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 Ora, alguns filósofos epicureus e estóicos disputavam com ele. Uns diziam: Que quer dizer este paroleiro? E outros: Parece ser pregador de deuses estranhos; pois anunciava a boa nova de Jesus e a ressurreição.
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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 E, tomando-o, o levaram ao Areópago, dizendo: Poderemos nós saber que nova doutrina é essa de que falas?
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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 Pois tu nos trazes aos ouvidos coisas estranhas; portanto queremos saber o que vem a ser isto.
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You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.”
21 Ora, todos os atenienses, como também os estrangeiros que ali residiam, de nenhuma outra coisa se ocupavam senão de contar ou de ouvir a última novidade.
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(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)
22 Então Paulo, estando de pé no meio do Areópago, disse: Varões atenienses, em tudo vejo que sois excepcionalmente religiosos;
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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 Porque, passando eu e observando os objetos do vosso culto, encontrei também um altar em que estava escrito: AO DEUS DESCONHECIDO. Esse, pois, que vós honrais sem o conhecer, é o que vos anuncio.
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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 O Deus que fez o mundo e tudo o que nele há, sendo ele Senhor do céu e da terra, não habita em templos feitos por mãos de homens;
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“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 nem tampouco é servido por mãos humanas, como se necessitasse de alguma coisa; pois ele mesmo é quem dá a todos a vida, a respiração e todas as coisas;
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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 e de um só fez todas as raças dos homens, para habitarem sobre toda a face da terra, determinando-lhes os tempos já dantes ordenados e os limites da sua habitação;
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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 para que buscassem a Deus, se porventura, tateando, o pudessem achar, o qual, todavia, não está longe de cada um de nós;
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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 porque nele vivemos, e nos movemos, e existimos; como também alguns dos vossos poetas disseram: Pois dele também somos geração.
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‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
29 Sendo nós, pois, geração de Deus, não devemos pensar que a divindade seja semelhante ao ouro, ou � prata, ou � pedra esculpida pela arte e imaginação do homem.
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“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 Mas Deus, não levando em conta os tempos da ignorância, manda agora que todos os homens em todo lugar se arrependam;
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In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
31 porquanto determinou um dia em que com justiça há de julgar o mundo, por meio do varão que para isso ordenou; e disso tem dado certeza a todos, ressuscitando-o dentre os mortos.
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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 Mas quando ouviram falar em ressurreição de mortos, uns escarneciam, e outros diziam: Acerca disso te ouviremos ainda outra vez.
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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 Assim Paulo saiu do meio deles.
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At that, Paul left the Council.
34 Todavia, alguns homens aderiram a ele, e creram, entre os quais Dionísio, o areopagita, e uma mulher por nome Dâmaris, e com eles outros.
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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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