Acts 17:23

Legacy Standard Bible

For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.

Cross References

Psalm 147:20

He has not done so with any nation; So as for His judgments, they have not known them. Praise Yah!

Psalm 50:21

“These things you have done and I kept silent; You thought that I was just like you; I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.

Isaiah 45:4

“For the sake of Jacob My servant, And Israel My chosen one, I have also called you by your name; I have given you a title of honor Though you have not known Me.

Matthew 15:9

‘But in vain do they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commands of men.’ ”

John 17:25

“O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet 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 know, for salvation is from the Jews.

John 8:54

Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God’;

Acts 17:30

Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now commanding men that everyone everywhere should repent,

Romans 1:28

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do those things which are not proper,

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased, through the foolishness of the message preached, to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 8:5

For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords,

Ephesians 2:12

remember that you were at that time without Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the sanctuary of God, exhibiting himself as being God.

1 Timothy 1:17

Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.