Acts 17:26
24 The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.
25 Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
27 God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each 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.’
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
- KJV
- And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
- WEB
- He 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,
- ASV
- and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined [their] appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;
- DARBY
- and has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, having determined ordained times and the boundaries of their dwelling,
- BLB
- And He made out of one [man] every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined the appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,
- ÅB
- Han lot alle folkeslagene av samme blod bo over hele jorden, og fastsatte tidsaldre for dem og grenser mellom bostededene deres,
- OTB
- Fra ett menneske skapte han alle nasjoner av menneskeheten for å bo over hele jorden, og han fastsatte deres bestemte tider og grensene for deres bosteder,
- B1930
- og han lot alle folkeslag av ett blod bo over hele jorderike, og satte dem faste tider og grenseskjell mellem deres bosteder,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 32:7–8
Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
Read in contextGenesis 3:20
And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.
Read in contextMalachi 2:10
Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
Read in contextRomans 5:12–19
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.
Read in contextJob 12:23
He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.
Read in contextJob 14:5
Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
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