Acts 17:22-34 - Paul Speaks To The Areopagus

22 And Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus said, Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are extremely devoted to the worship of demons. 23 For as I passed through, and observed your objects of worship, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore you worship as unknown, this I declare to you. 24 The God who made the world and all things in it, this [God] being Lord of heaven and earth dwells not in temples made with hands, 25 neither is he served by the hands of men as needing any thing, since he gives to all life, and breath, and all things; 26 and he made of one blood every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, determining their appointed times and the bounds of their habitation, 27 that they should seek God, if perhaps they might feel after and find him, and indeed he is not far from every one of us. 28 For in him we live, and move, and are; as some also of your own poets have said, For we are his offspring. 29 Being therefore an offspring of God, we ought not to think the Deity to be like gold or silver or stone, a work of art and human device.

30 Overlooking therefore the times of ignorance, God now commands all men everywhere to change their minds, 31 because he has appointed a day in which he is about to judge the world in righteousness, by the man whom he has appointed, giving assurance to all by raising him from the dead.

32 But when they heard of a resurrection of the dead, some scoffed; but others said, We will hear you again of this. 33 So Paul went out from the midst of them; 34 but certain men adhering to him believed, among whom were Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.