Acts 17:28

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

Montgomery 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

27"so that they might seek God, if perhaps they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from every on of us;

29"Since then we are God’s offspring, we ought not to imagine that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.

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Cross References

Luke 20:38"Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living; for to him all are alive.’

John 11:25"I am the resurrection and the life, "said Jesus. "He who believes in me, even if he has died, shall live.

Titus 1:12By one of their own number, by a prophet of their own, it has been said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle 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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