Acts 17:23

James Moffatt - New Testament

Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.

Cross References

John 4:22

You are worshipping something you do not know; we are worshipping what we do know — for salvation comes from the Jews.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

John 17:25

O just Father, though the world has not known thee, I have known thee, and they have known that thou hast sent me;

1 Corinthians 1:21

For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message.

Romans 1:28

Yes, as they disdained to acknowledge God any longer, God has given them up to a reprobate instinct, for the perpetration of what is improper,

Acts 17:30

Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,

1 John 5:20

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God; and we are in Him who is real, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God, this is life eternal.

1 Timothy 1:17

To the King of eternity, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever: Amen.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

the adversary who vaunts himself above and against every so-called god or object of worship, actually seating himself in the temple of God with the proclamation that he himself is God.

Ephesians 2:12

remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world.

1 Corinthians 8:5

(So-called gods there may be, in heaven or on earth — as indeed there are plenty of them, both gods and 'lords' —

John 8:54

Jesus replied, "Were I to glorify myself, my glory would be nothing; it is my Father who glorifies me; you say 'He is our God,'

Matthew 15:9

vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts."