Acts 17:23 Cross References - Rotherham

²³ For, passing through, and carefully observing your objects of devotion, I found an altar also, in which was inscribed––Unto an Unknown God. What, therefore, not knowing, ye reverence, the same, do, I, declare unto you.

²¹ These things, hast thou done, and I have kept silence, Thou thoughtest that I should really be like thyself, I will convict thee, yea I will set [thine offences] in order before thine eyes.

²⁰ He hath not dealt so with any nation, and, his regulations, he maketh not known to them. Praise ye Yah!

⁹ But, in vain, do they pay devotions unto me, teaching, for teachings, the commandments of men.

²² Ye, worship, that which ye know not; We, worship, that which we know; because, salvation, is, of the Jews.

⁵⁴ Jesus answered––If, I, glorify myself, my glory, is nothing: It is, my Father, that glorifieth me,––of whom, ye, say––He is, your God!

³ And, this, is the age–abiding life, That they get to know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou didst send, Jesus Christ.

²⁵ Righteous Father! And so, the world, came not to know thee; but, I, came to know thee, and, these, came to know that, thou, didst send me forth:

³⁰ The times of ignorance, therefore, overlooking, God, as things now are, is charging all men everywhere to repent,

²⁰ For, the unseen things of him, from a world’s creation, by the things made, being perceived, are clearly seen, even his eternal power and divinity,––to the end they should be without excuse; ²¹ Inasmuch as, having come to know God, not, as God, did they glorify him, or give him thanks, but were made fruitless in their reasonings, and darkened was their undiscerning heart, ²² Professing to be wise, they were made foolish, ²³ And, exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God, for the likeness of an image of a corruptible man, and of birds and fourfooted beasts and reptiles: ²⁴ Wherefore God gave them up in the covetings of their hearts unto impurity, so as to be dishonouring their bodies among them,–– ²⁵ Who, indeed, exchanged away the truth of God for the falsehood, and rendered worship and service unto the creature rather than unto the Creator,––who is blessed unto the ages. Amen!

²⁸ And, even as they did not approve to be holding, God, in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a disapproved mind to be doing the things that are not becoming,

²¹ For, seeing that, in the wisdom of God, the world, through its wisdom, did not get to knew God, God was well–pleased––through the foolishness of the thing proclaimed, to save them that believe.

⁵ For, if indeed there are so–called gods, whether in heaven or upon earth,––as indeed there are gods many and lords many,

⁴ In whom, the god of this age, hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, to the end they may not discern the radiance of the glad–message of the glory of the Christ––who is the image of God. ⁵ For, not ourselves, do we proclaim, but Christ Jesus, as Lord, and, ourselves, as your servants for Jesus’ sake. ⁶ Because, the God who said––Out of darkness, light shall shine! [is he] who hath shone in our hearts, in proportion to the radiance of the glorious knowledge of God, in the face of Christ.

⁸ But, at that time––not knowing God, ye were in servitude unto them who, by nature, are not Gods; ⁹ Whereas, now, having acknowledged God,––or rather, having been acknowledged by God, how turn ye back again unto the weak and beggarly elementary principles, unto which, over again, ye are wishing, to come into servitude?

¹² That ye were, in that season, separate from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and godless in the world;

⁴ The one who opposeth and exalteth himself on high against every one called God, or an object of worship; so that he, within the sanctuary of God, shall take his seat, showeth himself forth, that he is, God:––

¹⁷ Now, unto the King of the ages,––incorruptible, invisible, alone God, be honour and glory, unto the ages of ages, Amen!

²⁰ We know, moreover, that, the Son of God, hath come, and hath given us insight, so that we are getting to understand, him that is Real,––and we are in him that is Real, in his Son Jesus Christ. This, is the Real God, and life age–abiding.