Cross references

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.

Acts 17:23 BSB

Acts 17:23 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to John 4:22 (15 votes) and Galatians 4:8–9 (15 votes). 26 other verses point back to it. It links with 19 other books, from 1 Chronicles 28 to Revelation 14.

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Which verses does Acts 17:23 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. John 4:2215 votes

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

  2. Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

  3. John 17:39 votes

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

  4. John 17:257 votes

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

  5. Acts 17:306 votes

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

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

  7. For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

  8. He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

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

  10. 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 in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

  11. John 8:543 votes
  12. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. …

Which verses point to Acts 17:23?

The 10 strongest of 26.