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 is verse of the day number 231 of 366 on Lampfold, under the theme “In Him we live”. It comes from Acts 17, and 10 other passages connected to it are listed below.
Acts 17:28 in other translations
‘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 (BSB)
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.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Acts 17:28 in context
Acts 17:25–31 (KJV). The verse of the day is highlighted.
25Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
26And 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;
27That 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:
28For 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.
29Forasmuch 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.
30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
31Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Cross-references for Acts 17:28
Passages most often linked to Acts 17:28, strongest connections first.
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
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;
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
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