He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”
Acts 17:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed to see that the city was full of idols. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now while Paul was awaiting them at Athens, his spirit was grieved and roused to anger as he saw that the city was full of idols. American Standard Version (1901) Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols. Common English Bible While Paul waited for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed to find that the city was flooded with idols. Catholic Public Domain Version Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred up within him, seeing the city given over to idolatry. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now whilst Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, seeing the city wholly given to idolatry. |
He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”
He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”
I look at the faithless with disgust because they do not keep your commands.
It is zeal for your house that has consumed me; the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.
If I say, “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,” then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
But as for me, I am filled with power, with the spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and, after receiving instructions to have Silas and Timothy join him as soon as possible, they left him.
Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there would spend their time in nothing but telling or hearing something new.
For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
And now, as a captive to the Spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,
Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we decided to be left alone in Athens
and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man greatly distressed by the debauchery of the lawless