MARS' HILL

Passages on this topic · 16

• Acts 17:19

  They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

• Acts 17:20

  For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

• Acts 17:21

  Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

• Acts 17:22

  Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

• Acts 17:23

  For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.

• Acts 17:24

  The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands,

• Acts 17:25

  neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

• Acts 17:26

  He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

• Acts 17:27

  that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

• Acts 17:28

  ‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

• Acts 17:29

  Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

• Acts 17:30

  The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

• Acts 17:31

  because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

• Acts 17:32

  Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

• Acts 17:33

  Thus Paul went out from among them.

• Acts 17:34

  But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.