Acts 17:28

For in him we live, and move, and be. As also some of your poets said, And we be also the kind [or the kin] of him.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

27to seek God, if peradventure they feel him, either find (him), though he be not far from each of you.

29Therefore since we be the kind [or the kin] of God, we shall not deem [or guess] that (a) godly thing is like gold, and silver, either stone, either to (the) (en)graving of craft and thought of man.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:29For if a man riseth any time, and pursueth thee, and seeketh thy life, the life of my lord shall be kept (safe) as in a bundle of living trees, at thy Lord God (or with the Lord thy God); but the soul of thine enemies shall be hurled round about as in [the] fierceness, and [the] circle of a sling.

Psalms 36:9For the well of life is with thee; and in thy light we shall see light.

Daniel 5:23but thou were raised [up] against the Lord of heaven, and the vessels of his house were brought before thee, and thou, and thy best men, and thy wives, and thy concubines, drank wine in those vessels; and thou praisedest gods of silver, and of gold, and of brass, and of iron, and of tree, and of stone, that see not, neither hear, neither feel; certainly thou glorifiedest not God, that hath thy blast, and all thy ways in his hand. (but thou were raised up against the Lord of heaven, and the vessels of his House were brought before thee, and thou, and thy best men, and thy wives, and thy concubines, drank wine from those vessels; and thou praisedest gods made of silver, and gold, and bronze, and iron, and wood, and stone, that see not, neither hear, nor feel; certainly thou glorifiedest not God, who hath thy breath, and all thy ways, in his hands.)

Luke 20:38And God is not (the God) of dead men, but of living men; for all men live to him. (And God is not the God of the dead, but of the living; because everyone is alive to him.)

John 11:25Jesus saith to her, I am again-rising and life (or I am the resurrection and the life); he that believeth in me, yea, though he be dead, he shall live;

Titus 1:12And one of them, their proper prophet said (or their own prophet said), Men of Crete be (for)evermore liars, evil beasts, of slow womb.

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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