Acts 17:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For as I passed along and carefully observed your objects of worship, I came also upon an altar with this inscription, To the unknown god. Now what you are already worshiping as unknown, this I set forth to you.

American Standard Version (1901)

For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this I set forth unto you.

Common English Bible

As I was walking through town and carefully observing your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an unknown God.’ What you worship as unknown, I now proclaim to you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For as I was passing by and noticing your idols, I also found an altar, on which was written: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this is what I am preaching to you:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For passing by, and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on which was written: To the unknown God. What therefore you worship, without knowing it, that I preach to you:

Acts 17:23 Cross References

Psalm 147:20

He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his ordinances. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 50:21

These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one just like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

Isaiah 45:4

For the sake of my servant Jacob and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name; I give you a title, though you do not know me.

Matthew 15:9

in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.’ ”

John 17:25

“Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

John 4:22

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

John 8:54

Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, he of whom you say, ‘He is our God,’

Acts 17:30

While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of the proclamation, to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 8:5

Indeed, even though there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as in fact there are many gods and many lords—

Ephesians 2:12

remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God.

1 Timothy 1:17

To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.