And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.

And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:

Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?

And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, {Ye} men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. {Mars' hill: or, the court of the Areopagites}

Their idols {are} silver and gold, the work of men's hands.