Acts 17:16

Modern English Version

While Paul waited for them in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

And he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, Lord of Hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, thrown down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek to take my life.”

1 Kings 19:14

And he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, Lord of Hosts, because the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, thrown down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek to take my life.”

Psalm 119:136

Rivers of water run down from my eyes, because they keep not Your law.

Psalm 119:158

I look at the transgressors and grieve, because they keep not Your word.

Psalm 69:9

for zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen upon me.

Jeremiah 20:9

But if I say, “I will not make mention of Him nor speak anymore in His name,” then His word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I was weary of forbearing it, and I could not endure it.

Micah 3:8

But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.

Mark 3:5

When He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch your hand forward.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.

John 2:13

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Acts 17:15

Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and departed with instructions for Silas and Timothy to come to him quickly.

Acts 17:21

For all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time in nothing else, but either telling or hearing something new.

Acts 17:23

For as I passed by and looked up at your objects of worship, I found an altar with this inscription: to the unknown god. Therefore, whom you worship as unknown, Him I proclaim to you.

Acts 18:1

After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

Acts 20:22

“Now, behold, having been bound by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,

1 Thessalonians 3:1

Therefore, when we could no longer endure it, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone.

2 Peter 2:7

and if He delivered righteous Lot, who was distressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked