^{23 Ref} for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God -- unknown; whom, therefore -- not knowing -- ye do worship, this One I announce to you.

^{24 Ref} `God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,

^{25 Ref} neither by the hands of men is He served -- needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;

^{26 Ref} He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth -- having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings --

^{27 Ref} to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, -- though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

^{28 Ref} for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

^{29 Ref} `Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;

^{30 Ref} the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

^{31 Ref} because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'