Mars Hill

And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, `Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;

having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought <FI>him<Fi> , saying, `Are we able to know what <FI>is<Fi> this new teaching that is spoken by thee,

And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, `Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious; — read the full passage →

`Ye are the light of the world, a city set upon a mount is not able to be hid;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and certain men having cleaved to him, did believe, among whom <FI>is<Fi> also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them.

for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God--unknown; whom, therefore--not knowing--ye do worship, this One I announce to you.

And it came to pass on the next day, they having come down from the mount, there met him a great multitude,

And fear came upon all those dwelling around them, and in all the hill-country of Judea were all these sayings spoken of,

And Mary having arisen in those days, went to the hill-country, with haste, to a city of Judea,

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

but certain questions concerning their own religion they had against him, and concerning a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive;

because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

`God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,

And those conducting Paul, brought him unto Athens, and having received a command unto Silas and Timotheus that with all speed they may come unto him, they departed;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.

And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews,

And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek, — read the full passage →