Acts 17:23

New International Version

For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

Cross References

Psalm 147:20

He has done this for no other nation; they do not know his laws. Praise the Lord.

Psalm 50:21

When you did these things and I kept silent, you thought I was exactly like you. But I now arraign you and set my accusations before you.

Isaiah 45:4

For the sake of Jacob my servant, of Israel my chosen, I summon you by name and bestow on you a title of honor, though you do not acknowledge me.

Matthew 15:9

They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’ ”

John 17:25

“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me.

John 17:3

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

John 4:22

You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

John 8:54

Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me.

Acts 17:30

In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.

Romans 1:28

Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was 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 at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

1 Timothy 1:17

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1 John 5:20

We know also 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 by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.