22. Then Paul stood up before the meeting of the Areopagus council and said, “Men of Athens, everything I see here tells me you are very religious.
23. I was going through your city and I saw the things you worship. I found an altar that had these words written on it: ‘to an unknown god.’ You worship a god that you don’t know. This is the God I want to tell you about.
24. “He is the God who made the whole world and everything in it. He is the Lord of the land and the sky. He does not live in temples built by human hands.
25. He is the one who gives people life, breath, and everything else they need. He does not need any help from them. He has everything he needs.
26. God began by making one man, and from him he made all the different people who live everywhere in the world. He decided exactly when and where they would live.