Acts 17:24

World English Bible (WEB)

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

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22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.

24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

25 He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.

26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings,

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Acts 17:24 in every translation

WEB World English Bible: The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
KJV King James Version: God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
BSB Berean Standard Bible: The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.
ASV American Standard Version: The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
YLT Young's Literal Translation: '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,
DBY Darby Translation: The God who has made the world and all things which are in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,
WBS Webster Bible: God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;