Acts 17:23 KJV

For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

Thou and Ye

  • your, ye, you more than one

In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?

Matthew Henry

  • He preaches thereHere we have a sermon to heathens, who worshipped false gods, and were without the true God in the world; and to them the scope of the discourse was...

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Cross References

  • John 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
  • John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
  • Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
  • Galatians 4:8–9 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. …
  • 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

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  • God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...

Greek and Strong’s

  • For γὰρ gar γάρ Conjunction
  • as I passed by Διερχόμενος Dierchomenos διέρχομαι Verb · present middle participle, nominative masculine singular
  • and καὶ kai καί Conjunction
  • beheld ἀναθεωρῶν anatheōrōn ἀναθεωρέω Verb · present active participle, nominative masculine singular
  • your ὑμῶν hymōn Pronoun · second person, genitive plural ὑμῶν hymōn
  • devotions τὰ ta Article · accusative neuter plural σεβάσματα sebasmata σέβασμα Noun · accusative neuter plural καὶ kai καί Adverb
  • I found εὗρον heuron εὑρίσκω Verb · aorist active indicative, first person singular
  • an altar βωμὸν bōmon βωμός Noun · accusative masculine singular
  • with this ἐν en ἐν Preposition ᾧ hō ὅς Pronoun · dative masculine singular
  • inscription ἐπεγέγραπτο epegegrapto ἐπιγράφω Verb · pluperfect passive indicative, third person singular
  • TO THE UNKNOWN Ἀγνώστῳ Agnōstō ἄγνωστος Adjective · dative masculine singular
  • GOD Θεῷ Theō θεός Noun · dative masculine singular
  • Whom Ὃν Hon ὅς Pronoun · accusative masculine singular
  • therefore οὖν oun οὖν Conjunction
  • ye ignorantly ἀγνοοῦντες agnoountes ἀγνοέω Verb · present active participle, nominative masculine plural
  • worship εὐσεβεῖτε eusebeite εὐσεβέω Verb · present active indicative, second person plural
  • him τοῦτον touton Pronoun · accusative masculine singular τοῦτον toûton
  • declare καταγγέλλω katangellō καταγγέλλω Verb · present active indicative, first person singular
  • I ἐγὼ egō ἐγώ Pronoun · first person, nominative singular
  • unto you ὑμῖν hymin Pronoun · second person, dative plural ὑμῖν hymîn

Greek: KJTR, Alan Bunning, CNTR · CC BY 4.0

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