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Acts 17:23 KJV
Acts · chapter 17 · verse 23 · King James Version
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.Acts 17:23 · King James Version
Acts 17:23 in context
21(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
22Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
23For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Cross references
Key words (Strong's)
- inscriptionepigraphōto write upon, inscribe, metaph. to write upon the mindG1924 →
- ignorantlyagnoeōto be ignorant, not to know, not to understand, unknown, to err or sin through mistake…G50 →
- devotionssebasmawhatever is religiously honoured, an object of worship, of temples, altars, statues…G4574 →
- devotionskaiand, also, even, indeed, butG2532 →
- UNKNOWNagnōstosunknown, forgottenG57 →
- worshipeusebeōto act piously or reverently, towards God, one s country, magistrates, relations, and all…G2151 →
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