^{23 Ref} For 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.

^{24 Ref} The 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,

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

^{26 Ref} He 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,

^{27 Ref} 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.

^{28 Ref} '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.'

^{29 Ref} Being 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.

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