Acts 17:23

New Century Version

As I was going through your city, I saw the objects you worship. I found an altar that had these words written on it: to a god who is not known. You worship a god that you don’t know, and this is the God I am telling you about!

Cross References

Psalm 147:20

He didn’t do this for any other nation. They don’t know his laws. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 50:21

I have kept quiet while you did these things, so you thought I was just like you. But I will scold you and accuse you to your face.

Isaiah 45:4

I do these things for my servants, the people of Jacob, and for my chosen people, the Israelites. Cyrus, I call you by name, and I give you a title of honor even though you don’t know me.

Matthew 15:9

Their worship of me is worthless. The things they teach are nothing but human rules.’ ”

John 17:25

Father, you are the One who is good. The world does not know you, but I know you, and these people know you sent me.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life: that people know you, the only true God, and that they know Jesus Christ, the One you sent.

John 4:22

You Samaritans worship something you don’t understand. We understand what we worship, because salvation comes from the Jews.

John 8:54

Jesus answered, “If I give honor to myself, that honor is worth nothing. The One who gives me honor is my Father, and you say he is your God.

Acts 17:30

In the past, people did not understand God, and he ignored this. But now, God tells all people in the world to change their hearts and lives.

Romans 1:28

People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking and to do things they should not do.

1 Corinthians 1:21

In the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its own wisdom. So God chose to use the message that sounds foolish to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 8:5

Even though there are things called gods, in heaven or on earth (and there are many “gods” and “lords”),

Ephesians 2:12

Remember that in the past you were without Christ. You were not citizens of Israel, and you had no part in the agreements with the promise that God made to his people. You had no hope, and you did not know God.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will be against and put himself above any so-called god or anything that people worship. And that Man of Evil will even go into God’s Temple and sit there and say that he is God.

1 Timothy 1:17

To the King that rules forever, who will never die, who cannot be seen, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 John 5:20

We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we can know the True One. And our lives are in the True One and in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and the eternal life.