17:22 So Paul stood 8 before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious 9 in all respects. 10 17:23 For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, 11 I even found an altar with this inscription: 12 ‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, 13 this I proclaim to you. 17:24 The God who made the world and everything in it, 14 who is 15 Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, 16 17:25 nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, 17 because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone. 18 17:26 From one man 19 he made every nation of the human race 20 to inhabit the entire earth, 21 determining their set times 22 and the fixed limits of the places where they would live, 23 17:27 so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around 24 for him and find him, 25 though he is 26 not far from each one of us. 17:28 For in him we live and move about 27 and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ 28 17:29 So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity 29 is like gold or silver or stone, an image 30 made by human 31 skill 32 and imagination. 33 17:30 Therefore, although God has overlooked 34 such times of ignorance, 35 he now commands all people 36 everywhere to repent, 37