Acts 17:28

for from him we derive life, and power of motion, and existence; as also some of your own poets have said, “For we are even his offspring.”

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 the Lord, if indeed they might haply grope him out, and find him, though truly he is not far from any individual of us:

29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to imagine that the Divinity is like to gold, or silver, or stone sculptured by human art or contrivance.

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Cross References

Luke 20:38Now God is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live with him.

John 11:25Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

Titus 1:12One of them, a poet of their own nation, hath said, The Cretans are always liars, wicked beasts, slothful 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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