"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 offsp…" — Acts 17:28

Acts 17:28 · 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.”

— Acts 17:28

Verse 27

That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

Verse 29

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Acts 17 — Context

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;

That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

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.

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

Cross References

Job 12:10

In whose hand {is} the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. {soul: or, life} {all...: Heb. all flesh of man}

Colossians 1:17

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Hebrews 1:3

Who being the brightness of {his} glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Psalms 36:9

For with thee {is} the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

Luke 20:38

For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

John 11:25

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

John 5:26

For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

Psalms 66:9

Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved. {holdeth: Heb. putteth}