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[a] 29 Since we are His offspring, we ought not to suppose the Deity is like gold or silver or stone, an engraved image of human art and imagination. [b] 30 Although God overlooked the periods of ignorance, now He commands everyone everywhere to repent. 31 For He has set a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness, through a Man whom He has appointed.[c] He has brought forth evidence of this to all men, by raising Him from the dead.”

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:29 Quotes from Epimenides and Aratus.
  2. Acts 17:30 cf. Isa. 40:18-19.
  3. Acts 17:31 cf. Ps. 2; 9:8; 96:13; 98:9.

29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.(A) 30 In the past God overlooked(B) such ignorance,(C) but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.(D) 31 For he has set a day when he will judge(E) the world with justice(F) by the man he has appointed.(G) He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”(H)

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