Acts 17:28

because in Him we live and move and have our being. As also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also 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 should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

29Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divinity is like gold or silver or stone—something shaped by human skill and imagination.

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Cross References

Luke 20:38So He is not the God of the dead, but of the living—to Him all are alive.”

John 11:25Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes into me, though he may die, will live;

Titus 1:12One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

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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