Acts 17:22-34 - Paul Speaks To The Areopagus
22 So Paul stood up in the center of Mars Hill, and said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in all respects you are remarkably religious. 23 "For as I was passing along and observing your objects of worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What you are worshiping in ignorance, this I am proclaiming to you. 24 "The God who made the universe and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands, 25 "neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all life and breath and all things. 26 "He has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons and the bounds of their habitation, 27 "so that they might seek God, if perhaps they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from every on of us; 28 "for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, "'For we also are his offspring.' 29 "Since then we are God's offspring, we ought not to imagine that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.
30 "The times of ignorance God overlooked, but he now commands all men that they should all, everywhere, repent; 31 inasmuch as he has fixed a day in which he will judge the world justly, by the Man whom he has ordained, and he has given proof of all this by raising him from the dead."
32 But on hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock; but others said, "We will hear you again on that subject." 33 So Paul withdrew from them. 34 A few, however, attached themselves to him and believed, among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and some others.