Acts 17:28

For in him we live, and move, and exist, as also some of the performers from you have said, For of him we are also offspring.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

In Context

27to search for the Lord, if indeed perhaps they might grope for him and find him, although being not far from each one of us.

29Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not think the Divine to be like gold, or silver, or stone handiwork of the skill and thought of man.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:29And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with LORD thy God. And the souls of thine enemies, them he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

Psalms 36:9For with thee is the fountain of life. In thy light we shall see light.

Daniel 5:23but have lifted up thyself against LORD of heaven. And they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them. And thou have praised the gods of silve

Luke 20:38Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.

John 11:25Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even though he died, he will live.

Titus 1:12A certain man of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies.

Matthew Henry on Acts 17:23-32

Paul at Athens. 22 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. 23 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. 24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed… Read the whole commentary →

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