Acts 17:23

Weymouth NT

For as I passed along and observed the things you worship, I found also an altar bearing the inscription, `TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' »The Being, therefore, whom you, without knowing Him, revere, Him I now proclaim to you.

Cross References

Matthew 15:9

but it is in vain they worship Me, while they lay down precepts which are mere human rules.'«

John 17:25

And, righteous Father, though the world has failed to recognize Thee, I have known Thee, and these have perceived that Thou didst send me.

John 17:3

And in this consists the Life of the Ages–in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

John 4:22

You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.

John 8:54

»Were I to glorify myself,« answered Jesus, »I should have no real glory. There is One who glorifies me–namely my Father, who you say is your God.

Acts 17:30

Those times of ignorance God viewed with indulgence. But now He commands all men everywhere to repent,

Romans 1:28

And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For after the world by its wisdom –as God in His wisdom had ordained– had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it.

1 Corinthians 8:5

For if so-called gods do exist, either in Heaven or on earth –and in fact there are many such gods and many such lords–

Ephesians 2:12

At that time you were living apart from Christ, estranged from the Commonwealth of Israel, with no share by birth in the Covenants which are based on the Promises, and you had no hope and no God, in all the world.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

and exalts himself above, every so-called `god' or object of worship, and goes the length of taking his seat in the very temple of God, giving it out that he himself is God.

1 Timothy 1:17

Now to the immortal and invisible King of the Ages, who alone is God, be honour and glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we know the true One, and are in union with the true One–that is, we are in union with His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and the Life of the Ages.