Paul Speaks to the Areopagus

22 So Paul stood there in the middle of the Areopagus and[fn] said, “Men of Athens, I see youare very religious in every respect.[fn] 23 For as I[fn] was passing through and observing carefully your objects of worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, ‘To an unknown God.’ Therefore what you worship without knowingit,[fn] this I proclaim to you—24 the God who made the world and all the things in it. This one, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, 25 nor is he served by human hands as if he[fn] needed anything,because[fn] he himself gives to everyone life and breath and everything. 26 And he made from one man every nation of humanity to live on all the face of the earth, determining their fixed times and the fixed boundaries of their habitation, 27 to search for God, if perhaps indeed they might feel around for him and find him.[fn] And indeed he is not far away from each one of us, 28 for in him we live and move and exist,[fn] as even some ofyour own[fn] poets have said: ‘For we also arehis[fn] offspring.’[fn] 29 Therefore, because we[fn] are offspring of God, we ought not to think the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought. 30 Therefore although[fn] God has overlooked the times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness by the man who he has appointed, having provided proof to everyone by[fn] raising him from the dead.” 32 Now when they[fn] heard about the resurrection of the dead,some scoffed, but others said, “We will hear you about this again also.” 33 So Paul went out from the midst of them. 34 But some people[fn] joined himand[fn] believed, among whom alsowere Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named[fn] Damaris and others with them.