Acts 17:28

For in him we live and move and have our being, as indeed certain ones of your own poets have said, For we are truly his offspring.

1902 William Baxter Godbey 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

27that they should seek God, if perhaps indeed they might feel after him, and find him, though not being far from each one of you.

29Then being the offspring of God, we ought not to think that divinity is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, the invention of art and the device of man.

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Cross References

Luke 20:38He is not the God of the dead but of the living; for all live unto Him.

John 11:25Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing on me, though he may die, shall live: and

Titus 1:12A certain one of them, their own prophet, said, The Cretans are all liars, evil beasts, slow stomachs.

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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