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New Living Translation (NLT)

Acts 17
²⁷ “His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—though he is not far from any one of us.
²⁸ For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
²⁹ And since this is true, we shouldn’t think of God as an idol designed by craftsmen from gold or silver or stone.
³⁰ “God overlooked people’s ignorance about these things in earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him.
³¹ For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead.”
³² When they heard Paul speak about the resurrection of the dead, some laughed in contempt, but others said, “We want to hear more about this later.”
³³ That ended Paul’s discussion with them,
³⁴ but some joined him and became believers. Among them were Dionysius, a member of the council, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Acts 18
¹ Then Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
² There he became acquainted with a Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently arrived from Italy with his wife, Priscilla. They had left Italy when Claudius Caesar deported all Jews from Rome.
³ Paul lived and worked with them, for they were tentmakers just as he was.