Acts 17:23

Good News Translation

For as I walked through your city and looked at the places where you worship, I found an altar on which is written, ‘To an Unknown God.’ That which you worship, then, even though you do not know it, is what I now proclaim to you.

Cross References

Psalm 147:20

He has not done this for other nations; they do not know his laws. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 50:21

You have done all this, and I have said nothing, so you thought that I am like you. But now I reprimand you and make the matter plain to you.

Isaiah 45:4

I appoint you to help my servant Israel, the people that I have chosen. I have given you great honor, although you do not know me.

Matthew 15:9

It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!’”

John 17:25

Righteous Father! The world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you sent me.

John 17:3

And eternal life means to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

John 4:22

You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship; but we Jews know whom we worship, because it is from the Jews that salvation comes.

John 8:54

Jesus answered, “If I were to honor myself, that honor would be worth nothing. The one who honors me is my Father—the very one you say is your God.

Acts 17:30

God has overlooked the times when people did not know him, but now he commands all of them everywhere to turn away from their evil ways.

Romans 1:28

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom. Instead, by means of the so-called “foolish” message we preach, God decided to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 8:5

Even if there are so-called “gods,” whether in heaven or on earth, and even though there are many of these “gods” and “lords,”

Ephesians 2:12

At that time you were apart from Christ. You were foreigners and did not belong to God's chosen people. You had no part in the covenants, which were based on God's promises to his people, and you lived in this world without hope and without God.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will oppose every so-called god or object of worship and will put himself above them all. He will even go in and sit down in God's Temple and claim to be God.

1 Timothy 1:17

To the eternal King, immortal and invisible, the only God—to him be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

1 John 5:20

We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we know the true God. We live in union with the true God—in union with his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and this is eternal life.