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Acts 17:23

World English Bible

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.

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Acts 17:23 in other translations

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.

Acts 17:23 · American Standard Version

Acts 17:23 in context

  1. 21Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
  2. 22Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
  3. 23For 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.
  4. 24The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
  5. 25He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.