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God
The God
who made the world
and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not
live in temples built by hands.
And He
is not served by human hands,
as if He needed anything,
because He Himself gives all men life and breath and everything
else.
From one
man he made every nation of men,
that they should inhabit the whole earth;
and He determined the times set for them and the exact places where
they should live.
God did
this so that men would seek Him
and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him,
though He is not far from each one of us.
For in Him we live and move and have our being.
As some of your own poets have said,
We are His offspring.
Therefore
since we are God's offspring,
we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver
or stone
an image made by mans design and skill.
In the
past God overlooked such ignorance,
but now He commands all people everywhere to repent.
For He
has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the man
He has appointed.
He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.
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