Acts 17:24

New Testament Historical ASV (1901)

The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

Acts 17:24 — American Standard Version

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Context — Acts 17

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21(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)

22And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, Ye men of Athens, in all things, I perceive that ye are very religious.

23For 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.

24The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

25neither is he served by men`s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

26and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined [their] appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;

27that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us:

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