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What does Acts 17:22 mean?
"Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things."
— Acts 17:22 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?
For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
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.
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,
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.
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