Acts

Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,

And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.

Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man"s house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean; from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.

And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.

After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;

Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

So Paul departed from among them.

And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man"s device.

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

Neither is worshipped with men"s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

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.

Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars" hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

(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.)

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.