Verse 23
Acts 17:23
Literal Standard Version
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for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I also found an altar on which had been inscribed: To God (Elohim)—unknown; whom, therefore—not knowing—you worship, this One I announce to you.
Original Language Text
greek
διερχόμενος γὰρ καὶ ἀναθεωρῶν τὰ σεβάσματα ὑμῶν εὗρον καὶ βωμὸν ἐν ᾧ ἐπεγέγραπτο· Ἀγνώστῳ θεῷ. ⸀ὃ οὖν ἀγνοοῦντες εὐσεβεῖτε, ⸀τοῦτο ἐγὼ καταγγέλλω ὑμῖν.
English Translation
For as I passed by and observed your objects of worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: To an Unknown God. Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.
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Chapter 17 Context
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And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where the synagogue...
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and according to the custom of Paul, he went in to them, and for three Sabbaths he was reasoning wit...
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opening and alleging that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer, and to rise again out of the de...
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And certain of them believed, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also a great multitude o...
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And the Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to themselves certain evil men of the ag...
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and having not found them, they drew Jason and certain brothers to the city rulers, calling aloud, “...
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whom Jason has received; and all these do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be ki...
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And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things,
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and having taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
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And the brothers 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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therefore, many of them, indeed, believed, and not a few of the honorable Greek women and men.
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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 brothers 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 to Athens, and having received a command to Silas and Timothe...
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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 worshiping 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, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “Are we able to know what this new...
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for you bring certain strange things to our ears? We resolve, then, to know what these things would...
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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 also found an altar on which had be...
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God (Elohim), who made the world, and all things in it, this One, being Lord of Heaven and of earth,...
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neither is He served by the hands of men—needing anything, He giving life to all, and breath, and al...
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He also made every nation of man of one blood, to dwell on all the face of the earth—having ordained...
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to seek the LORD, if perhaps they felt after Him and found, though, indeed, He is not far from each...
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for in Him we live, and move, and are; as certain of your poets have also said: For we are also His...
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Being, therefore, offspring of God (Elohim), we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, o...
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therefore indeed God (Elohim), having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commands all men everyw...
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because He set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a Man whom He orda...
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And having heard of a resurrection 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, believed, among whom is also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a...
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