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Acts 17:22-24
1599 Geneva Bible
Acts 17:22-24
1599 Geneva Bible
22 [a]Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ street, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too [b]superstitious.
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your [c]devotions, I found an altar wherein was written, UNTO THE [d]UNKNOWN GOD. Whom ye then ignorantly worship, him show I unto you.
24 [e]God that made the world, and all things that are therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, (A)dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
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- Acts 17:22 The idolaters themselves minister most strong and forcible arguments against their own superstition.
- Acts 17:22 To stand in too peevish and servile a fear of your gods.
- Acts 17:23 Whatsoever men worship for religion’s sake, that we call devotion.
- Acts 17:23 Pausanias in his Atticis, maketh mention of the altar which the Athenians had dedicated to unknown gods: and Laertius in his Epimenides maketh mention of an altar that had no name entitled.
- Acts 17:24 It is a most foolish and vain thing to compare the Creator with the creature, to limit him within a place, which can be comprehended in no place, and to think to allure him with gifts, of whom all men have received all things whatsoever they have: And these are the fountains of all idolatry.
Acts 17:22-24
New International Version
Acts 17:22-24
New International Version
22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus(A) and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.(B) 23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship(C)—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.
24 “The God who made the world and everything in it(D) is the Lord of heaven and earth(E) and does not live in temples built by human hands.(F)
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