Acts 17:23

For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

Cross References (18)

  • Galatians 4:8–9 (14)

    Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

  • John 4:22 (13)

    You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

  • John 17:3 (8)

    Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

  • John 17:25 (6)

    Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.

  • 1 Corinthians 1:21 (5)

    For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of

  • Acts 17:30 (5)

    Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.

  • 2 Thessalonians 2:4 (5)

    He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple o

  • 1 Timothy 1:17 (4)

    Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

  • 1 John 5:20 (4)

    And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are

  • Romans 1:28 (4)

    Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to

  • Romans 1:20–25 (3)

    For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly se

  • Ephesians 2:12 (3)

    remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to th

  • 1 Corinthians 8:5 (3)

    For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),

  • John 8:54 (3)

    Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory means nothing. The One who glorifies Me is My Father, of whom you say, ‘H

  • 2 Corinthians 4:4–6 (3)

    The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Chr

  • Matthew 15:9 (3)

    They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”

  • Psalms 50:21 (2)

    You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to y

  • Psalms 147:20 (2)

    He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!