Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

And when the town clerk had appeased the people, he said, "Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there who knoweth not that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

but had certain questions against him concerning their own superstition and of one Jesus, who was dead and whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Thus saith the LORD: "Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

For the customs of the people are vain; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.

A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up! For it is the land of graven images, and they are mad over their idols.