25. He doesn't need help from anyone. He gives life, breath, and everything else to all people.
26. From one person God made all nations who live on earth, and he decided when and where every nation would be.
27. God has done all this, so that we will look for him and reach out and find him. He isn't far from any of us,
28. and he gives us the power to live, to move, and to be who we are. “We are his children,” just as some of your poets have said.
29. Since we are God's children, we must not think that he is like an idol made out of gold or silver or stone. He isn't like anything that humans have thought up and made.
30. In the past, God forgave all this because people did not know what they were doing. But now he says that everyone everywhere must turn to him.
31. He has set a day when he will judge the world's people with fairness. And he has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death.
32. As soon as the people heard Paul say that a man had been raised from death, some of them started laughing. Others said, “We will hear you talk about this some other time.”
33. When Paul left the council meeting,
34. some of the men put their faith in the Lord and went with Paul. One of them was a council member named Dionysius. A woman named Damaris and several others also put their faith in the Lord.