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New American Standard Bible 1995

Acts 17:23-31

23For while I was passing through and examining the 1objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what 2you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. 243The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is 4Lord of heaven and earth, does not 5dwell in temples made with hands; 25nor is He served by human hands, 6as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26and 7He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having 8determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, 9though He is not far from each one of us; 28for 10in Him we live and move and 11exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’ 29Being then the children of God, we 12ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man. 30Therefore having 13overlooked 14the times of ignorance, God is 15now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, 31because He has fixed 16a day in which 17He will judge 1819the world in righteousness 20through a Man whom He has 21appointed, having furnished proof to all men 22by 23raising Him from the dead.”

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Notes

  1. 1. Acts 17:23 2 Thess 2:4 ↩
  2. 2. Acts 17:23 John 4:22 ↩
  3. 3. Acts 17:24 Is 42:5; Acts 14:15 ↩
  4. 4. Acts 17:24 Deut 10:14; Ps 115:16; Matt 11:25 ↩
  5. 5. Acts 17:24 1 Kin 8:27; Acts 7:48 ↩
  6. 6. Acts 17:25 Job 22:2; Ps 50:10-12 ↩
  7. 7. Acts 17:26 Mal 2:10 ↩
  8. 8. Acts 17:26 Deut 32:8; Job 12:23 ↩
  9. 9. Acts 17:27 Deut 4:7; Jer 23:23f; Acts 14:17 ↩
  10. 10. Acts 17:28 Job 12:10; Dan 5:23 ↩
  11. 11. Acts 17:28 Lit are ↩
  12. 12. Acts 17:29 Is 40:18ff; Rom 1:23 ↩
  13. 13. Acts 17:30 Acts 14:16; Rom 3:25 ↩
  14. 14. Acts 17:30 Acts 17:23 ↩
  15. 15. Acts 17:30 Luke 24:47; Acts 26:20; Titus 2:11f ↩
  16. 16. Acts 17:31 Matt 10:15 ↩
  17. 17. Acts 17:31 Ps 9:8; 96:13; 98:9; John 5:22, 27; Acts 10:42 ↩
  18. 18. Acts 17:31 Lit the inhabited earth ↩
  19. 19. Acts 17:31 Matt 24:14; Acts 17:6 ↩
  20. 20. Acts 17:31 Lit by or in ↩
  21. 21. Acts 17:31 Luke 22:22 ↩
  22. 22. Acts 17:31 Or when He raised ↩
  23. 23. Acts 17:31 Acts 2:24 ↩

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