Acts 17:23

New American Bible - revised edition

For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, ‘To an Unknown God.’ What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.

Cross References

Psalm 147:20

He has not done this for any other nation; of such laws they know nothing. Hallelujah!

Psalm 50:21

When you do these things should I be silent? Do you think that I am like you? I accuse you, I lay out the matter before your eyes.

Isaiah 45:4

For the sake of Jacob, my servant, of Israel my chosen one, I have called you by name, giving you a title, though you do not know me.

Matthew 15:9

in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts.’”

John 17:25

Righteous Father, the world also does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you sent me.

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

John 4:22

You people worship what you do not understand; we worship what we understand, because salvation is from the Jews.

John 8:54

Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing; but it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’

Acts 17:30

God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that all people everywhere repent

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since in the wisdom of God the world did not come to know God through wisdom, it was the will of God through the foolishness of the proclamation to save those who have faith.

1 Corinthians 8:5

Indeed, even though there are so-called gods in heaven and on earth (there are, to be sure, many “gods” and many “lords”),

Ephesians 2:12

were at that time without Christ, alienated from the community of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god and object of worship, so as to seat himself in the temple of God, claiming that he is a god—

1 Timothy 1:17

To the king of ages, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. Responsibility of Timothy.

1 John 5:20

We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us discernment to know the one who is true. And we are in the one who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.