和合本
17:22 保羅站在亞略‧巴古當中,說:眾位雅典人哪,我看你們凡事很敬畏鬼神。
17:23 我遊行的時候,觀看你們所敬拜的,遇見一座壇,上面寫著未識之神。你們所不認識而敬拜的,我現在告訴你們。
17:24 創造宇宙和其中萬物的神,既是天地的主,就不住人手所造的殿,
17:25 也不用人手服事,好像缺少甚麼;自己倒將生命、氣息、萬物,賜給萬人。
17:26 他從一本(有古卷作血脈)造出萬族的人,住在全地上,並且預先定準他們的年限和所住的疆界,
17:27 要叫他們尋求神,或者可以揣摩而得,其實他離我們各人不遠;
17:28 我們生活、動作、存留,都在乎他。就如你們作詩的,有人說:我們也是他所生的。
17:29 我們既是神所生的,就不當以為神的神性像人用手藝、心思所雕刻的金、銀、石。
17:30 世人蒙昧無知的時候,神並不監察,如今卻吩咐各處的人都要悔改。
17:31 因為他已經定了日子,要藉著他所設立的人按公義審判天下,並且叫他從死裡復活,給萬人作可信的憑據。
17:32 眾人聽見從死裡復活的話,就有譏誚他的;又有人說:我們再聽你講這個吧!
17:33 於是保羅從他們當中出去了。
17:34 但有幾個人貼近他,信了主,其中有亞略‧巴古的官丟尼修,並一個婦人,名叫大馬哩,還有別人一同信從。
現代中文本
17:22 保羅站立在亞略‧巴古議會上,說:「雅典的居民們!我知道你們在各方面都表現出濃厚的宗教熱情。
17:23 我在城裏到處走動,觀看你們崇拜的場所,竟發現有一座祭壇,上面刻著『獻給不認識的神』。我現在要告訴你們的就是這位你們不認識、卻在敬拜著的神。
17:24 這位創造天、地,和其中萬物的上帝乃是天地的主。他不住人所建造的殿宇,
17:25 也不需要人的任何供奉;因為他自己把生命、氣息,和萬物賜給人類。
17:26 他從一人造出萬族,使他們散居在整個地面上,而且為他們預先定下了年限和居住的疆界。
17:27 他這樣做是要他們尋求上帝,或者能夠在摸索中找到他。其實,上帝與我們每一個人相距不遠。
17:28 有人說:『我們的生活、行動、存在都在於他。』又如你們當中某詩人說的:『我們也是他的兒女。』
17:29 既然我們是他的兒女,我們就不應該幻想上帝的本性是可以用人的技巧,用金銀或石頭所雕製的偶像來比擬的。
17:30 當人類處在蒙昧無知的時候,上帝不加深究,但現在他命令全人類要離棄邪惡的道路。
17:31 因為他已經定下日子,要藉著他所揀選的一個人,用公義來審判全世界;由於使這一個人從死裏復活,他已經把憑據給了全人類。」
17:32 他們一聽見保羅說起死人復活的事,有人就譏笑他;另有些人說:「我們希望再聽你講講這件事。」
17:33 於是保羅離開了議會。
17:34 有些人成為他的同道,作了信徒;其中有亞略‧巴古的議員杜尼修,又有一個名叫大馬哩的婦人,和另外一些人。
17:22 So Paul, standing in the middle of the Are-op'agus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.
17:23 For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, `To an unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
17:24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man,
17:25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything.
17:26 And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation,
17:27 that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us,
17:28 for `In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your poets have said, `For we are indeed his offspring.'
17:29 Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of man.
17:30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent,
17:31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all men by raising him from the dead."
17:32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We will hear you again about this."
17:33 So Paul went out from among them.
17:34 But some men joined him and believed, among them Dionys'ius the Are-op'agite and a woman named Dam'aris and others with them.
今日禱告
1.為我們的信心禱告,有時用理性只能明瞭上帝的部份,要了解上帝上帝更多常常需要信心的超越
2.為最近大家身體的健康禱告,有一些人有感冒症狀,求神保守