Acts 17:28

For in Him we live and move, and exist; as some also of your own poets have said, "For we his offspring are."

1770 John Worsley NT

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 seek the Lord, if possibly they might trace Him, and find Him: though indeed He is not far from every one of us.

29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to imagine that the Deity is like to gold, or silver, or stone, carved by the art and device of man.

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Cross References

Luke 20:38And He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; for to Him they are all living.

John 11:25Jesus then told her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth on me, though he were dead, shall live again.

Titus 1:12as said one of themselves, a prophet of their own, "The Cretans are always liars, mischievous beasts, sluggish 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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