Acts 17:28

For in him we live and move and have our being, just as one of your own poets has said, 'For we also are his offspring.'

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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.

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27so that they should search for God and perhaps they may feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us.

29Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we ought not to think that the qualities of deity are like gold, or silver, or stone—images created by the art and imagination of man.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:29Though men rise up to pursue you to take your life, yet the life of my master will be bound in the bundle of the living by Yahweh your God; and he will sling away the lives of your enemies, as from the pocket of a sling.

Psalms 36:9For with you is the fountain of life; 1 in your light we will see light. 1

Daniel 5:23You have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. From his house they brought you the containers that you, your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from, and you praised the idols made of silver and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—idols that do not see, hear, or know anything. You have not honored the God who holds your breath in his hand and who knows all your ways.

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

John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, even if he dies, will live;

Titus 1:12One of their own prophets has 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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