TOPICAL BIBLE
Athens
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Acts 17:15And those conducting Paul, brought him unto Athens, and having received a command unto Silas and Timotheus that with all speed they may come unto him, they departed;Acts 17:16and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,Acts 17:17therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.Acts 17:18And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, ‘What would this seed picker wish to say?’ and others, ‘Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;’ because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,Acts 17:19having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought him, saying, ‘Are we able to know what is this new teaching that is spoken by thee,Acts 17:20for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;’Acts 17:21and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.Acts 17:22And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, ‘Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;Acts 17:23for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God—unknown; whom, therefore—not knowing—ye do worship, this One I announce to you.Acts 17:24‘God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,Acts 17:25neither by the hands of men is He served—needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;Acts 17:26He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth—having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings—Acts 17:27to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find,—though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,Acts 17:28for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.Acts 17:29‘Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;Acts 17:30the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,Acts 17:31because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.’Acts 17:32And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, ‘We will hear thee again concerning this;’Acts 17:33and so Paul went forth from the midst of them,Acts 17:34and certain men having cleaved to him, did believe, among whom is also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them.1 Thessalonians 3:1Wherefore no longer forbearing, we thought good to be left in Athens alone,
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