Acts 17:28-34

28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’^[a] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’^[b]

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 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.

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 the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.”

33 At that, Paul left the Council.

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.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 30:20; Job 12:10; Daniel 5:23
• 2. Isaiah 40:18-20; Romans 1:23
• 3. Acts 14:16; Romans 3:25
• 4. ver 23; 1 Peter 1:14
• 5. Luke 24:47; Titus 2:11,12
• 6. S Matthew 10:15
• 7. Psalms 9:8; Psalms 96:13; Psalms 98:9
• 8. S Acts 10:42
• 9. S Acts 2:24
• 10. ver 18,31
• 11. ver 19,22

Footnotes

• [a] From the Cretan philosopher Epimenides
• [b] From the Cilician Stoic philosopher Aratus