Acts 17:28

For in him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said: ‘For we also are his offspring.’

Text-Critical English NT

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 seek the Lord and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.

29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, an image formed by the skill and imagination of man.

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Cross References

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

John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, yet shall he live.

Titus 1:12One of their very own prophets said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and 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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