Acts 17:23

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

For as I passed by and behelde the maner how ye worship youre goddes I founde an aultre wher in was written: vnto ye vnknowen god. Whom ye then ignoratly worship him shewe I vnto you.

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  • John 4:22 : 22 Ye worshippe ye wot not what: we knowe what we worshippe. For salvacion cometh of the Iewes.
  • John 17:3 : 3 This is lyfe eternall that they myght knowe the that only very God and whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ.
  • Acts 17:30 : 30 And the tyme of this ignoraunce God regarded not: but now he byddeth all men every where repen
  • Gal 4:8-9 : 8 Notwithstondinge whe ye knewe not God ye dyd service vnto them which by nature were no goddes. 9 But now seinge ye knowe god (yee rather are knowe of God) how is it that ye tourne agayne vnto the weake and bedgarly cerimonies whervnto agayne ye desyre afresshe to be in bondage?
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 which is an adversarie and is exalted above all that is called god or that is worshipped: so that he shall sitt as God in temple of god and shew him silfe as god.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 We knowe that the sonne of God is come and hath geven vs a mynde to knowe him which is true: and we are in him that is true through his sonne Iesu Christ. This same is very god and eternall lyfe.
  • Matt 15:9 : 9 but in vayne they worshippe me teachinge doctrines whiche are nothing but mens precepts.
  • 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 So then vnto god kynge everlastinge immortall invisible and wyse only be honoure and prayse for ever and ever Amen.
  • Eph 2:12 : 12 Remeber I saye yt ye were at that tyme wt oute Christ and were reputed aliantes from the comen welth of Israel and were straugers fro the testamentes of promes and had no hope and were with out god in this worlde.
  • Rom 1:20-25 : 20 So that his invisible thinges: that is to saye his eternall power and godhed are vnderstonde and sene by the workes from the creacion of the worlde. So that they are without excuse 21 in as moche as when they knewe god they glorified him not as God nether were thakfull but wexed full of vanities in their imaginacions and their folisshe hertes were blynded. 22 When they couted them selves wyse they became foles 23 and turned the glory of the immortall god vnto the similitude of the ymage of mortall man and of byrdes and foure foted beastes and of serpentes. 24 Wherfore god lykewyse gave the vp vnto their hertes lustes vnto vnclennes to defyle their awne boddyes bitwene them selves: 25 which tourned his truthe vnto a lye and worshipped and served the creatures more then ye maker which is blessed for ever. Amen.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And as it semed not good vnto them to be aknowen of God even so God delivered them vp vnto a leawde mynd yt they shuld do tho thinges which were not comly
  • 1 Cor 1:21 : 21 Hath not God made the wysdome of this worlde folisshnes? For when the worlde thorow wysdome knew not God in ye wysdome of God: it pleased God thorow folisshnes of preachinge to save them yt beleve.
  • 1 Cor 8:5 : 5 And though ther be yt are called goddes whether in heven other in erth (as ther be goddes many and LORdes many)
  • 2 Cor 4:4-6 : 4 in whom ye god of this worlde hath blynded the myndes of them which beleve not lest the light of ye glorious gospell of Christ which is the ymage of god shuld shyne vnto them. 5 For we preache not oure selves but Christ Iesus to be the Lorde and oure selves youre servautes for Iesus sake. 6 For it is God that commauded the light to shyne out of darcknes which hath shyned in oure hertes for to geve the light of the knowledge of the glorie of God in the face of Iesus Christ.
  • John 17:25 : 25 O ryghteous father ye very worlde hath not knowen the: but I have knowen the and these have knowen that thou hast sent me.
  • John 8:54 : 54 Iesus answered: Yf I honoure my selfe myne honoure is nothinge worth. It is my father that honoureth me which ye saye is youre God

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    15And they that gyded Paul brought him vnto Attens and receaved a comaundment vnto Sylas and Timotheus for to come to him at once and came their waye.

    16Whyll Paul wayted for them at Attens his sprete was moved in him to se the cite geven to worshippinge of ymages.

    17Then he disputed in the synagoge wt the Iewes and with the devout persones and in the market dayly with the that came vnto him.

    18Certayne philosophers of ye Epicures and of ye stoyckes disputed with him. And some ther were which sayde: what will this babler saye. Other sayd: he semeth to be a tydynges bringer of newe devyls because he preached vnto them Iesus and the resurreccion.

    19And they toke him and brought him into Marsestrete sayinge: maye we not knowe what this newe doctrine wher of thou speakest is?

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    21For all the Attenians and straungers which were there gave the selves to nothinge els but ether to tell or to heare newe tydynges.

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    27that they shuld seke God yf they myght fele and fynde him though he be not farre from every one of vs.

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    19seynge what maye be knowen of God that same is manifest amoge them. For God dyd shewe it vnto them.

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