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Acts 17:22-27 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

22. But Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious.

23. For passing by, and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on which was written: To the unknown God. What therefore you worship, without knowing it, that I preach to you:

24. God, who made the world, and all things therein; he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

25. Neither is he served with men's hands, as though he needed any thing; seeing it is he who giveth to all life, and breath, and all things:

26. And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times, and the limits of their habitation.

27. That they should seek God, if happily they may feel after him or find him, although he be not far from every one of us:

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