Acts 17:28

for in him we live and move and are. To use the words of some of your own poets — ‘His offspring, too, are we.’

Twentieth Century 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 might search for God, if by any means they might feel their way to him and find him. And yet he is not really far from any one of us;

29Therefore, as the offspring of God, we must not think that the Deity has any resemblance to anything made of gold, or silver, or stone — a work of human art and imagination.

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Cross References

Luke 20:38Now he is not God of dead men, but of living. For in his sight all are alive.”

John 11:25“I am the Resurrection and the Life,” said Jesus. “He that believes in me shall live, though he die;

Titus 1:12It was a Cretan — one of their own teachers — who said: ‘Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers’; and his statement is true.

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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