17:22 So Paul stood ¹  before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious ²  in all respects. ³  17:23 For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, ⁴  I even found an altar with this inscription: ⁵  ‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, ⁶  this I proclaim to you. 17:24 The God who made the world and everything in it, ⁷  who is ⁸  Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, ⁹  17:25 nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, ¹⁰  because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone. ¹¹  17:26 From one man ¹²  he made every nation of the human race ¹³  to inhabit the entire earth, ¹⁴  determining their set times ¹⁵  and the fixed limits of the places where they would live, ¹⁶  17:27 so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around ¹⁷  for him and find him, ¹⁸  though he is ¹⁹  not far from each one of us. 17:28 For in him we live and move about ²⁰  and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ ²¹  17:29 So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity ²²  is like gold or silver or stone, an image ²³  made by human ²⁴  skill ²⁵  and imagination. ²⁶  17:30 Therefore, although God has overlooked ²⁷  such times of ignorance, ²⁸  he now commands all people ²⁹  everywhere to repent, ³⁰  17:31 because he has set ³¹  a day on which he is going to judge the world ³²  in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, ³³  having provided proof to everyone by raising ³⁴  him from the dead.”

17:32 Now when they heard about ³⁵  the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, ³⁶  but others said, “We will hear you again about this.” 17:33 So Paul left the Areopagus. ³⁷  17:34 But some people ³⁸  joined him ³⁹  and believed. Among them ⁴⁰  were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus, ⁴¹  a woman ⁴²  named Damaris, and others with them.