Acts 17:16-28
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Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was g provoked within him as he saw that the city was h full of idols.
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So i he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.
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Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, j "What does this babbler wish to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities" - because k he was preaching l Jesus and the resurrection.
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And they took him and brought him to m the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this n new teaching is that you are presenting?
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For you bring some o strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean."
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Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.
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So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.
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For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, p 'To the unknown god.' p What therefore you worship q as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
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r The God who made the world and everything in it, being s Lord of heaven and earth, t does not live in temples made by man,
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nor is he served by human hands, u as though he needed anything, since he himself v gives to all mankind w life and breath and everything.
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And x he made from one man every nation of mankind to live y on all the face of the earth, z having determined allotted periods and a the boundaries of their dwelling place,
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b that they should seek God, in the hope that c they might feel their way toward him and find him. d Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,
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e "'In him we live and move and have our being';
as even some of f your own poets have said,
"'For we are indeed his offspring.'
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2 Peter 2:8
(for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard).
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Isaiah 2:8
Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
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Acts 13:5
When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them.
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1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
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Acts 5:42
And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
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Acts 17:31 - 32
Because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.
Acts 4:2
Greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:12
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
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Acts 17:22
So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.
Acts 17:34
But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
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Mark 1:27
And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.
John 7:16
So Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.
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1 Peter 4:4
With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you.
1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
Hosea 8:12
Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.
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John 4:22
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
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John 4:22
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
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Acts 17:30
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
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Isaiah 42:5
Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:
Acts 14:15
Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
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Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children.
Deuteronomy 10:14
Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.
Psalms 115:16
The heavens are the Lord 's heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.
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Acts 7:48
Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says.
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Psalms 50:8 - 12
Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
1 Chronicles 29:14
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.
1 Chronicles 29:16
O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own.
Job 22:2
Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
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1 Timothy 6:17
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
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Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from t...
Genesis 7:22
Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils wa...
Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath o...
Job 27:3
As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit o...
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, an...
Zechariah 12:1
The burden of the word of the Lord concerning I...
Acts 17:28
For "'In him we live and move and have our bein...
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Genesis 3:20
The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Malachi 2:10
Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
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Genesis 11:8
So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
Luke 21:35
For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
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Job 12:23
He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
Job 14:5
Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass.
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Deuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Psalms 74:17
You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter.
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Acts 15:17
That the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things
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Job 23:3
Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!
Job 23:8 - 9
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I do not perceive him.
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Deuteronomy 4:7
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
Psalms 145:18
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
Jeremiah 23:23 - 24
Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away?
Acts 14:17
Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.
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Job 12:10
In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
Daniel 5:23
But you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
Hebrews 2:11
For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers.
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Titus 1:12
One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.
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