22 Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely spiritual

you are in every way. 23 For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your

worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What

therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and

everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human

hands, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives

to all mortals life and breath and all things. 26 From one ancestor he made all peoples to inhabit

the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places

where they would live, 27 so that they would search for God and perhaps fumble about for him

and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. 28 For ‘In him we live and move

and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said,

‘For we, too, are his offspring.’

29 “Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold or silver or

stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. 30 While God has overlooked the

times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he

has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has

appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give

you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world

cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him because he abides

with you, and he will be in you.

18 “I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. 19 In a little while the world will no longer

see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will know that I

am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 They who have my commandments and keep

them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love

them and reveal myself to them.”