Acts 17:27-28

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.’^[a] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’^[b]

Acts 17:27-28 In-Context

25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

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. Deuteronomy 4:7; Isaiah 55:6; Jeremiah 23:23,24; Acts 14:17
• 2. Deuteronomy 30:20; Job 12:10; Daniel 5:23

Footnotes

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