Acts 17:28

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as certain of your poets have also 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

27to seek the LORD, if perhaps they felt after Him and found, though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

29Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, [an] engraving of art and imagination of man;

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:29And man rises to pursue you and to seek your soul, and the soul of my lord has been bound in the bundle of life with your God YHWH; as for the soul of your enemies, He slings them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling.

Psalms 36:9For a fountain of life [is] with You, || In Your light we see light.

Daniel 5:23and against the Lord of the heavens you have lifted up yourself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before you, and you, and your great men, your wives, and your concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, you have praised: and the God in whose hand [is] your breath, and all your ways, Him you have not honored.

Luke 20:38and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.”

John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I AM the resurrection, and the life; he who is believing in Me, even if he may die, will live;

Titus 1:12A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans! 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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