[17:22] So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.
[17:23] For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
[17:24] The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,
[17:25] nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
[17:26] And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
[17:27] that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,
[17:28] for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
[17:29] Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
[17:30] The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
[17:31] because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
[17:32] Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.”
[17:33] So Paul went out from their midst.
[17:34] But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.