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Acts 17:28

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 · King James Version

In other versions

  • 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.

    ASV

  • For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

    BBE

  • for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.

    DBY

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

    WEB

  • for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

    YLT

  • 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.

    ENG

  • 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.

    WBT

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

    BSB

In context

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:

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