Acts 17:28

for in him it is we live, and move, and exist: as one of your own wise men hath said: From him is our descent.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 might inquire and search after God, and, by means of his creations, might find him; because he is not afar off from each one of us:

29Therefore we, whose descent is from God, ought not to suppose that the Deity hath the likeness of gold, or silver, or stone, sculptured by the art and skill of men

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Cross References

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

John 11:25Jesus said to her: I am the consolation, and life. And he that believeth in me, though he should die, will live.

Titus 1:12One of them, a prophet of their own, said, The Cretans are always mendacious, evil beasts, idle bellies.

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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