Acts 17:27-28

Listen to 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]

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Cross References 2

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 2

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

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