²⁰ For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean.” ²¹ (Now all the Athenians and the strangers ^(A)visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)

Sermon on Mars Hill

²² So Paul stood in the midst of the ^[a]Areopagus and said, “Men of ^(B)Athens, I see that you are very ^(C)religious in all respects. ²³ For while I was passing through and examining the ^(D)objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore, what ^(E)you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. ^24 (F)The God who made the world and everything that is in it, since He is ^(G)Lord of heaven and earth, does not ^(H)dwell in temples made by hands; ²⁵ nor is He served by human hands, ^(I)as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; ²⁶ and ^(J)He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having ^(K)determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, ²⁷ that they would seek God, if perhaps they might feel around for Him and find Him, ^(L)though He is not far from each one of us; ²⁸ for ^(M)in Him we live and move and ^[b]exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His descendants.’ ²⁹ Therefore, since we are the descendants of God, we ^(N)ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought. ³⁰ So having ^(O)overlooked ^(P)the times of ignorance, God is ^(Q)now proclaiming to mankind that all people everywhere are to repent, ³¹ because He has set ^(R)a day on which ^(S)He will judge ^[c](T)the world in righteousness ^[d]through a Man whom He has ^(U)appointed, having furnished proof to all people ^[e]by ^(V)raising Him from the dead.”