Acts 17:28

28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[a] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’[b]

Acts 17:28 in Other Translations

KJV
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.
ESV
28 for "'In him we live and move and have our being';as even some of your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.'
NLT
28 For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
MSG
28 We live and move in him, can't get away from him! One of your poets said it well: 'We're the God-created.'
CSB
28 For in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.' Gk poet.

Acts 17:28 In-Context

26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.
27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.
28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.
30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.

Cross References 1

  • 1. Deuteronomy 30:20; Job 12:10; Daniel 5:23

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. From the Cretan philosopher Epimenides
  • [b]. From the Cilician Stoic philosopher Aratus
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