Acts 17:23

First Nations Version

As I walked around, I saw some of your sacred objects. One altar had this message carved into it: DEDICATED TO AN UNKNOWN POWERFUL SPIRIT “So then, the one you sacredly honor without knowing is the one I will make known to you.

Cross References

John 17:3

This life comes from knowing you, the only true and Great Spirit, and from knowing the Chosen One, Creator Sets Free (Jesus), the one you have sent into this world.

John 17:25

“O Father of all that is good and right, the world does not know you, but I know you, and my followers know you sent me.

1 Corinthians 1:21

In his great wisdom Creator knew that the world through its wisdom would not come to know him. So his heart was glad to rescue and set free the ones who trust in the “foolishness” of the good story we tell.

Romans 1:28

Since they did not want to know the Great Spirit, he turned them over to their worthless ways of thinking, to do things that should not be done.

Acts 17:30

“In times past Creator overlooked this empty way of thinking. But now he wants all people everywhere to return to the right way of thinking,

1 John 5:20

We also know that the Son of the Great Spirit has come. He has given us a way to know the True One. It is through his Son, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, that we are in harmony with the True One. This is the one true Great Spirit and the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony.

1 Timothy 1:17

So let us honor the Great Chief of all the ages, the one whom death has no power over, who cannot be seen with human eyes. He is the only true and Great Spirit. All honor and shining-greatness belong to him to the time beyond the end of all days. Aho! May it be so!

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will speak out against and consider himself to be greater than all the so-called powerful spirit-beings and all that is seen as sacred or holy. He will even set himself up in Creator’s sacred lodge and represent himself as the Great Spirit.

Ephesians 2:12

You Outside Nations did not share in the promises or the peace treaty that the Great Spirit made with those tribes. You were out from under their special care and protection—unaware of and apart from the Chosen One. You shared no common hope and were outside the help Creator gave to them in this world.

1 Corinthians 8:5

There are spirits in this world and in the spirit-world above that are called powerful spirit-beings or spirit-rulers. Even if there are many of these,

John 8:54

Creator Sets Free (Jesus) answered them, “If I honor myself, then I have no honor. The one who honors me is my Father, the one of whom you say, ‘He is our Great Spirit.’

Matthew 15:9

Their prayers are empty words and their ceremonies are for show. The things they tell others to do are only rules made up by weak human beings.’”