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Acts 17:28

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‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

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Acts 17:28 in other translations

for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Acts 17:28 · American Standard Version

Acts 17:28 in context

  1. 26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
  2. 27that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
  3. 28‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
  4. 29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
  5. 30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,