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Acts 17:28

Acts chapter 17 · verse 28 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.27that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us:

v.28This passage

v.29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • John 11:25

    Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live;

  • Hebrews 12:9

    Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

  • 1 Samuel 25:29

    And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.

  • Colossians 1:17

    and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.

  • Psalms 36:9

    For with thee is the fountain of life: In thy light shall we see light.

  • Daniel 5:23

    but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.