Acts 17:28

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Acts 17:28

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

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KJV

King James Version

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.

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WEB

World English Bible

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

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ASV

American Standard Version

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.

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

‘For in Him we live and move and are.’ As also some of the poets among you⁺ have said, ‘For we are also [His] offspring.’

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Acts 17

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.

³⁰ Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.

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