Acts 17:28 “‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own…”

Acts 17:28

‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

For in him we liue, and mooue, and haue our being, as also certaine of your owne Poets haue sayd, for we are also his generation.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

Bible in Basic English

For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

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Cross references

“in him”

Job 12:10 Colossians 1:17 Hebrews 1:3 Psalm 36:9 Luke 20:38 John 5:26

Job 12:10 · BSB

The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

Colossians 1:17 · BSB

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

Hebrews 1:3 · BSB

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 h…

Psalm 36:9 · BSB

For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.

Luke 20:38 · BSB

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.”

John 5:26 · BSB

For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

“as”

Titus 1:12

Titus 1:12 · BSB

As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

“we are”

Hebrews 12:9 Luke 3:38

Hebrews 12:9 · BSB

Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

Luke 3:38 · BSB

the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

Also

Daniel 5:23

Daniel 5:23 · BSB

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27God 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.

29Therefore, 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.

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