Acts 17:28

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

Young's Literal Translation

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 the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, — though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

29'Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:29And man riseth to pursue thee and to seek thy soul, and the soul of my lord hath been bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; as to the soul of thine enemies, He doth sling them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling.

Psalms 36:9For with Thee [is] a fountain of life, In Thy light we see light.

Daniel 5:23and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and the God in whose hand [is] thy breath, and all thy ways, Him thou hast not honoured.

Luke 20:38and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.'

John 11:25Jesus said to her, 'I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

Titus 1:12A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said — 'Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

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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