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   scriptures daily, whether those things were so.   
      
   12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were   
   Greeks, and of men, not a few.   
      
   13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God   
   was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up   
   the people.   
      
   14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to   
   the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.   
      
   15 And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a   
   commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed,   
   they departed.   
      
   16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in   
   him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.   
      
   17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the   
   devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.   
      
   18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks,   
   encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some,   
   He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached   
   unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.   
      
   19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we   
   know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?   
      
   20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know   
   therefore what these things mean.   
      
   21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their   
   time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)   
      
   22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of   
   Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.   
      
   23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with   
   this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly   
   worship, him declare I unto you.   
      
   24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is   
   Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;   
      
   25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any   
   thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;   
      
   26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the   
   face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and   
   the bounds of their habitation;   
      
   27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him,   
   and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:   
      
   28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of   
   your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.   
      
   29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think   
   that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art   
   and man's device.   
      
   30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all   
   men every where to repent:   
      
   31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world   
   in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath   
   given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.   
      
   32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and   
   others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.   
      
   33 So Paul departed from among them.   
      
   34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was   
   Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.   
      
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