21 Now all the Athenians and foreigners visiting there used to pass their time doing nothing but telling or hearing something new.
22 So Paul stood in the middle of the Aereopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in all ways you are very religious.
23 For while I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an Unknown God.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing, this I proclaim to you.
24 The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by hands.
25 Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, since He Himself gives to everyone life and breath and all things.
26 From one He made every nation of men to live on the face of the earth, having set appointed times and the boundaries of their territory.
27 They were to search for Him, and perhaps grope around for Him and find Him. Yet He is not far from each one of us,