Acts 17:30-31

Paul Addresses the Areopagus

³⁰ _i The times of ignorance _j God overlooked, but _k now he _l commands all people everywhere to repent, ³¹ because he has fixed _m a day on which _n he will judge the world _o in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and _p of this he has given assurance to all _q by raising him from the dead."

1. Cross References
   Ephesians 4:18
   They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
   1 Peter 1:14
   As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance.
   Acts 17:23
   For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To the unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
   
2. Cross References
   Romans 3:25
   Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
   Acts 14:16
   In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
   
3. Cross References
   Mark 1:15
   And saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.
   Titus 2:11 - 12
   For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people.
   1 Peter 4:3
   For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
   
4. Cross References
   Mark 6:12
   So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent.
   
5. Cross References
   Matthew 12:36
   I tell you, on the day of judgment people will ...
   Romans 2:16
   On that day when, according to my gospel, God j...
   1 Corinthians 3:13
   Each one's work will become manifest, for the D...
   2 Peter 2:9
   Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly fro...
   1 John 4:17
   By this is love perfected with us, so that we m...
   Isaiah 2:12
   For the Lord of hosts has a day against all tha...
   
6. Cross References
   2 Timothy 4:8
   Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
   Acts 10:42
   And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
   
7. Cross References
   Psalms 9:8
   And he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.
   Psalms 96:13
   Before the Lord, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
   Psalms 98:9
   Before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
   1 Peter 2:23
   When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
   Romans 3:6
   By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
   
8. Cross References
   John 16:10 - 11
   Concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer.
   Romans 1:4
   And was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.
   
9. Cross References
   Acts 2:24
   God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.