Acts 17:28
26 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.
‘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, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
30 Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.
- BLB
- ‘For in Him we live and move and are.’ As also some of the poets among you⁺ have said, ‘For we are also [His] offspring.’
- ÅB
- For det er i ham vi lever og beveger oss og er til, slik også noen av deres egne poeter har sagt: ‘For vi er også hans slekt‘.
- OTB
- For i ham lever vi, beveger vi oss og er til, som også noen av deres egne diktere har sagt: ‘For vi er faktisk hans slekt.’
- B1930
- For i ham er det vi lever og rører oss og er til, som også nogen av eders skalder har sagt: For vi er også hans ætt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 12:10
The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
Read in contextColossians 1:17
He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
Read in contextHebrews 1:3
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Read in contextPsalms 36:9
For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.
Read in contextLuke 20:38
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.”
Read in contextJohn 11:25
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
Read in contextJohn 5:26
For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
Read in contextPsalms 66:9
He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.
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