Acts 17:27

World English Bible (2000)

that 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.

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  • Acts 14:17 : 17 Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
  • Rom 1:20 : 20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.
  • Deut 4:7 : 7 For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
  • Jer 23:23-24 : 23 Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.
  • Acts 15:17 : 17 That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things.
  • Rom 2:4 : 4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
  • Ps 19:1-6 : 1 The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4 Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, 5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course. 6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.
  • Ps 139:1-9 : 1 Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether. 5 You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me. 6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it. 7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there! 9 If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10 Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me. 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;" 12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you. 13 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.

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    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,

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    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.

    22Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

    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,

    25neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

    26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

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    17That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things.

    18All his works are known to God from eternity.'

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    20For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

    21Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

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    2God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

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    29But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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    6Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:

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    13You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

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    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.

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    2Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.

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    11There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

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    25All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.

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    21But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven't heard will understand."

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    4But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

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    21won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

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    6They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

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    7that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

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    28Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

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