And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.(Acts 17:15)

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.(Acts 17:16)

Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.(Acts 17:17)

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?(Acts 17:19)

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.(Acts 17:20)

(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)(Acts 17:21)

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Acts 17:18 - Cross Reference

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. (1 Corinthians 4:10)

Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. (Acts 4:2)

And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: (Luke 11:53)

For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. (Romans 14:9)

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. (Proverbs 23:9)

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. (Proverbs 26:12)

Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. (Acts 17:31)

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; (1 Corinthians 15:3)

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (Colossians 2:8)

Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. (Acts 6:9)

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? (1 Corinthians 1:20)

And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them. (Mark 9:14)

That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles. (Acts 26:23)

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, (Romans 1:22)

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. (1 Corinthians 3:18)