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Acts 17:23

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For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this I set forth unto you.

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Acts 17:23 in other translations

For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.

Acts 17:23 · World English Bible

Acts 17:23 in context

  1. 21(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)
  2. 22And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, Ye men of Athens, in all things I perceive that ye are very religious.
  3. 23For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this I set forth unto you.
  4. 24The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
  5. 25neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;