24"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.


In Context

21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)

22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.

23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:

24 "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.

25 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.

26 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.

Acts 17:24 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:24God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:24God, who made the world, and all things therein; he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:24The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:24The 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,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:24The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:24God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:24The 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,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:24'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,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:24God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands;