16Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he observed that the city was full of idols.17So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be present.18Some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers conferred with him. Some said, 'What would this babbler wish to say?' Others said, 'He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities,' because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.19They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, 'Are we able to know what this new teaching is that is being spoken by you?'20For you are bringing certain strange things to our ears. Therefore we wish to know what these things mean.21Now all the Athenians and the foreigners sojourning there used to spend their time in nothing else than either to say or to hear something new.22Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, 'Men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in every way.'23For as I passed through and observed your objects of worship, I found also an altar on which had been inscribed, 'To an unknown god.' Therefore what you worship without knowing, this I proclaim to you.24The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made by hands.25Nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all life and breath and everything.26And he made from one every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their dwelling place.27That they should seek God, if perhaps they might feel after him and find him; yet he is not far from each one of us.28For in him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.30The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.31Because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.32Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, but others said, 'We will hear you again about this.'33So Paul went out from their midst.34But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.