Acts 17:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:

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  • Acts 14:17 : 17 But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.
  • Rom 1:20 : 20 For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
  • Deut 4:7 : 7 For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?
  • Jer 23:23-24 : 23 Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance? 24 In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.
  • Acts 15:17 : 17 So that the rest of men may make search for the Lord, and all the Gentiles on whom my name is named,
  • Rom 2:4 : 4 Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?
  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!
  • Ps 19:1-6 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands. 2 Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge. 3 There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound. 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun, 5 Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way. 6 His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.
  • Ps 139:1-9 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets. 2 You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away. 3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways. 4 For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord. 5 I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me. 6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it. 7 Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you? 8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there. 9 If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea; 10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me. 11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night; 12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you. 13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

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    28 For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

    29 If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.

    30 Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:

  • Acts 17:19-26
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    19 And they took him to Mars' Hill, saying, Will you make clear to us what is this new teaching of yours?

    20 For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.

    21 (Now all the Athenians and the men from other lands who come there were giving all their time to talking or hearing of anything new.)

    22 And Paul got to his feet on Mars' Hill and said, O men of Athens, I see that you are overmuch given to fear of the gods.

    23 For when I came by, I was looking at the things to which you give worship, and I saw an altar with this writing on it, TO THE GOD OF WHOM THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE. Now, what you, without knowledge, give worship to, I make clear to you.

    24 The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;

    25 And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

    26 And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

  • Acts 15:17-18
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    17 So that the rest of men may make search for the Lord, and all the Gentiles on whom my name is named,

    18 Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.

  • Rom 1:18-21
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    18 For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;

    19 Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.

    20 For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

    21 Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

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    2 God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

  • Deut 4:29
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    29 But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.

  • Isa 55:6
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    6 Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

  • Jer 29:13
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    13 And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.

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    15 Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

    16 Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.

    17 But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.

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    2 The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

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    11 Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

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    37 And when they came up with him, they said to him, Everyone is looking for you.

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    25 All people are looking on it; man sees it from far.

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    17 But when he was in Rome, he went in search of me everywhere, and came to me

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    17 And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:

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    12 And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.

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    23 Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?

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    20 And Isaiah says without fear, Those who were not searching for me made discovery of me; and I was seen by those whose hearts were turned away from me.

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    2 Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?

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    29 This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.

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    35 But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.

  • Rom 15:21
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    21 But as it is said in the holy Writings, They will see, to whom the news of him had not been given, and those to whose ears it had not come will have knowledge.

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    24 Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

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    4 But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.

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    19 Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

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    21 Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.

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    7 For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?

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    6 They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.

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    24 And hearing it, they all, with one mind, made prayer to God and said, O Lord, maker of heaven and earth and the sea and all things in them:

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    4 For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:

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    15 Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval;

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    7 So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws;

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    28 Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

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    5 For though there are those who have the name of gods, in heaven or on earth, as there are a number of gods and a number of lords,