Wednesday 13 May 2015

15But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens.Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothythat they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

· · · verses 16–21 are not read22Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said,“You men of Athens,I perceive that you are very religious in all things.23For as I passed alongand observed the objects of your worship,I also found an altar with this inscription:‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’What therefore you worship in ignorance,I announce to you.24The 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.25He isn’t served by men’s hands,as though he needed anything,seeing he himself gives to all lifeand breath and all things.26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth,having determined appointed seasonsand the boundaries of their dwellings,27that they should seek the Lord,if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him,though he is not far from each one of us.28‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’As 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 Nature is like gold,or silver, or stone,engraved by art and design of man.30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked.But now he commandsthat all people everywhere should repent,31because he has appointed a day inwhich he will judge the world in righteousness by the manwhom he has ordained;of which he has given assurance to all men,in that he has raised him from the dead.”

32Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked;but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

33Thus Paul went out from among them.34But certain men joined with him and believed,including Dionysius the Areopagite,and a woman named Damaris,and others with them.

1After these things Paul departed from Athensand came to Corinth.

1Praise the Lord!Praise the Lord from the heavens!Praise him in the heights!2Praise him, all his angels!Praise him, all his army!

11kings of the earth and all peoples,princes and all judges of the earth,12both young men and maidens,old men and children.

13Let them praise the Lord’s name,for his name alone is exalted.His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

14He has lifted up the horn of his people,the praise of all his saints,even of the children of Israel, a people near to him.Praise the Lord!

12“I still have many things to tell you,but you can’t bear them now.13However, when he, the Spirit of truth,has come, he will guide you into all truth,for he will not speak from himself;but whatever he hears, he will speak.He will declare to you things that are coming.14He will glorify me,for he will take from what is mineand will declare it to you.15All things that the Father has are mine;therefore I said that he takes of mineand will declare it to you.