Acts 17:27

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Acts 17:27

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

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.

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KJV

King James Version

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:

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WEB

World English Bible

that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

to seek God, if perhaps indeed they might feel after Him and might find Him—and indeed, He is not far from each one of us.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Acts 17

²⁵ Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

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.

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