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for "'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.'

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highlighted Acts 17:25-27 ESV

nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.

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highlighted Acts 17:24 ESV

The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,

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highlighted Acts 17:23 ESV

For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To the unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

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highlighted Acts 17:22 ESV

So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.

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highlighted Acts 17:21 ESV

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.

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highlighted Acts 17:20 ESV

For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean."

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highlighted Acts 17:19 ESV

And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

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Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, "What does this babbler wish to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities"—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

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highlighted Acts 17:17 ESV

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.

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highlighted Acts 17:16 ESV

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.

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highlighted Acts 17:15 ESV

Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.

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highlighted Acts 17:13 ESV

But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

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highlighted Acts 17:11 ESV

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

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highlighted Acts 17:12 ESV

Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men.

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highlighted Acts 17:10 ESV

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.

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highlighted Acts 17:9 ESV

And when they had taken money as security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

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highlighted Acts 17:8 ESV

And the people and the city authorities were disturbed when they heard these things.

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highlighted Acts 17:7 ESV

and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus."

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highlighted Acts 17:6 ESV

And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, "These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

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