Acts 17:28

For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

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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

27So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:

29If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:29And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.

Psalms 36:9\36:8\The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

Daniel 5:23But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;

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

John 11:25Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;

Titus 1:12One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.

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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