Acts 17:22-34 - Paul Speaks To The Areopagus
22 So Paul took his stand in the middle of the Court, and said- -"Men of Athens, on every hand I see signs of your being very devout. 23 For as I was going about, looking at your sacred shrines, I came upon an altar with this inscription--'To an Unknown God.' What, therefore, you worship in ignorance, that I am now proclaiming to you. 24 The God who made the world and all things that are in it-- he, Lord as he is of Heaven and Earth, does not dwell in temples made by hands, 25 Nor yet do human hands minister to his wants, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives, to all, life, and breath, and all things. 26 He made all races of the earth's surface--fixing a time for their rise and fall, and the limits of their settlements-- 27 That they might search for God, if by any means they might feel their way to him and find him. And yet he is not really far from any one of us; 28 For in him we live and move and are. To use the words of some of your own poets--'His offspring, too, are we.' 29 Therefore, as the offspring of God, we must not think that the Deity has any resemblance to anything made of gold, or silver, or stone--a work of human art and imagination.
30 True, God looked with indulgence on the days of men's ignorance, but now he is announcing to every one everywhere the need for repentance, 31 Because he has fixed a day on which he intends to 'judge the world with justice,' by a man whom he has appointed--and of this he has given all men a pledge by raising this man from the dead."
32 On hearing of a resurrection of the dead, some began jeering, but others said that they would hear what he had to say about that another time. 33 And so Paul left the Court. 34 There were, however, some men who joined him, and became believers in Christ. Among them were Dionysius, a member of the Court of Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and several others.