Acts 17:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed to see that the city was full of idols.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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)

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ While Paul waited for them in Athens, he was deeply distressed to find that the city was flooded with idols.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ Now whilst Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, seeing the city wholly given to idolatry.

Acts 17:16 Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

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.”

1 Kings 19:14

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.”

Psalm 119:136

My eyes shed streams of tears because your law is not kept.

Psalm 119:158

I look at the faithless with disgust because they do not keep your commands.

Psalm 69:9

It is zeal for your house that has consumed me; the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

Jeremiah 20:9

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.

Micah 3:8

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.

Mark 3:5

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.

John 2:13

The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Acts 17:15

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.

Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there would spend their time in nothing but telling or hearing something new.

Acts 17:23

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.

Acts 18:1

After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

Acts 20:22

And now, as a captive to the Spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,

1 Thessalonians 3:1

Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we decided to be left alone in Athens

2 Peter 2:7

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man greatly distressed by the debauchery of the lawless