Acts 17:22

World English Bible (2000)

Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

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  • Acts 25:19 : 19 but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
  • Jer 10:2-3 : 2 Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
  • Jer 50:38 : 38 A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
  • Acts 17:16 : 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
  • Acts 19:35 : 35 When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn't know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

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  • Acts 17:23-24
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    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 you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.

    24The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,

  • Acts 17:15-21
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    15But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

    16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

    17So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

    18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

    19They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

    20For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."

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

  • Acts 14:11-16
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    11When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!"

    12They called Barnabas "Jupiter," and Paul "Mercury," because he was the chief speaker.

    13The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.

    14But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,

    15"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

    16who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

  • Acts 19:25-29
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    25whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, "Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.

    26You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.

    27Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships."

    28When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

    29The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel.

  • Acts 19:34-37
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    34But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

    35When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn't know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

    36Seeing then that these things can't be denied, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rash.

    37For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

  • Acts 18:13
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    13saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

  • Acts 24:11
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    11seeing that you can recognize that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.

  • Acts 14:18
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    18Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

  • Acts 17:27-30
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    27that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

    28'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'

    29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

    30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

  • Acts 28:22
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    22But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."

  • Acts 13:16
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    16Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.

  • Acts 16:17
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    17Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!"

  • Gal 4:8
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    8However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

  • Acts 17:33-34
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    33Thus Paul went out from among them.

    34But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

  • Acts 21:28-29
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    28crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"

    29For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

  • Acts 21:19
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    19When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • Acts 19:17
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    17This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

  • Acts 18:4
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    4He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

  • 1 Thess 1:9
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    9For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

  • Acts 23:1
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    1Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day."

  • Acts 22:1
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    1"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."

  • Acts 26:24
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    24As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!"

  • Acts 24:14
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    14But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

  • Eph 4:17
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    17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

  • Acts 17:1
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    1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

  • Acts 17:12
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    12Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.