Verse 29
Acts 17:29
Young's Literal Translation
29
'Being, therefore, offspring of God (Elohim), we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;
Original Language Text
greek
γένος οὖν ὑπάρχοντες τοῦ θεοῦ οὐκ ὀφείλομεν νομίζειν χρυσῷ ἢ ἀργύρῳ ἢ λίθῳ, χαράγματι τέχνης καὶ ἐνθυμήσεως ἀνθρώπου, τὸ θεῖον εἶναι ὅμοιον.
English Translation
Therefore, as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think of the divine as being like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
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Chapter 17 Context
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And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synago...
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and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning w...
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opening and alleging, 'That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and...
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And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshippi...
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And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers cert...
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and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud...
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whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be k...
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And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things,
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and having taking security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
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And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having...
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and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of m...
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many, indeed, therefore, of them did believe, and of the honourable Greek women and men not a few.
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And when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God (Elohim) declared by...
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and then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul, to go on as it were to the sea, but both Silas an...
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And those conducting Paul, brought him unto Athens, and having received a command unto Silas and Tim...
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and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given...
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therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons...
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And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and so...
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having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought [him], saying, 'Are we able to know what [is]...
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for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things wou...
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and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say somethi...
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And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, 'Men, Athenians, in all things I perceiv...
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for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had...
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'God (Elohim), who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being...
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neither by the hands of men is He served -- needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and...
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He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth -- having ord...
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to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, -- though, indeed, He is not far from...
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for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we a...
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'Being, therefore, offspring of God (Elohim), we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold,...
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the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God (Elohim) having overlooked, doth now command all...
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because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He...
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And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, 'We wil...
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and so Paul went forth from the midst of them,
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and certain men having cleaved to him, did believe, among whom [is] also Dionysius the Areopagite, a...
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