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Acts 17:28
Acts 17:28 is verse 28 of Acts chapter 17, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
This is probably a quote from the Cretan philosopher Epimenides of Knossos.
This is probably a quote from the poem “Phainomena” by the Cilician philosopher Aratus.
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.’
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Acts 17:26–30 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
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, 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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Samuel 25:29And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
Job 12:10The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
Psalms 36:9For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.
Psalms 66:9He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.
Luke 20:38He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.”
John 5:26For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
Colossians 1:17He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
Hebrews 1:3The 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.
Titus 1:12As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
Luke 3:38the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
Hebrews 12:9Furthermore, 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?