Acts 17:27
Acts chapter 17 · verse 27 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us:
KJV
King James Version · 1611That 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:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us:
Context
v.26and 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;
v.27This passage
v.28for 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 8:27
But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded!
- Acts 14:17
And yet he left not himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.
- Jeremiah 23:23
Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
- Psalms 139:1
O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and knownme.
- Romans 1:20
For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse:
- Acts 15:17
That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, And all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called,