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Acts 17:28

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.

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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 lest by any means they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

29Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by are and man's device.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:29Yet a man has risen to pursue you, and to seek your soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God; and the souls of yours enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

Psalms 36:9For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.

Daniel 5:23But have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine in them; and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, have you not glorified:

Luke 20:38For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

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

Titus 1:12One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, sluggards.

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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