Acts 17:28

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as some of your own poets have said, For we also are his offspring.

Revised King James 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 God, in the hope that they might grope for him, and find him, though he is not far from every one of us:

29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, formed by art and man's imagination.

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Cross References

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

John 11:25Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live:

Titus 1:12One of themselves, a prophet of their own, 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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