Acts 17:23

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:

Cross References

Psalm 50:21

Then you will accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations, and holocausts. Then they will lay calves upon your altar.

Isaiah 45:4

For the sake of Jacob, my servant, and Israel, my elect, I have even called you by your name. I have taken you up, and you have not known me.

Matthew 15:9

For in vain do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and commandments of men.' "

John 17:25

Father most just, the world has not known you. But I have known you. And these have known that you 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 do know. For salvation is from the Jews.

John 8:54

Jesus responded: "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me. And you say about him that he is your God.

Acts 17:30

And indeed, God, having looked down to see the ignorance of these times, has now announced to men that everyone everywhere should do penance.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not prove to have God by knowledge, God handed them over to a morally depraved way of thinking, so that they might do those things which are not fitting:

1 Corinthians 1:21

For the world did not know God through wisdom, and so, in the wisdom of God, it pleased God to accomplish the salvation of believers, through the foolishness of our preaching.

1 Corinthians 8:5

For although there are things that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (if one even considers there to be many gods and many lords)

Ephesians 2:12

and that you were, in that time, without Christ, being foreign to the way of life of Israel, being visitors to the testament, having no hope of the promise, and being without God in this world.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

who is an adversary to, and who is lifted up above, all that is called God or that is worshipped, so much so that he sits in the temple of God, presenting himself as if he were God.

1 Timothy 1:17

So then, to the King of ages, to the immortal, invisible, solitary God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has arrived, and that he has given us understanding, so that we may know the true God, and so that we may remain in his true Son. This is the true God, and this is Eternal Life.