Acts 17:28
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“‘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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“‘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 · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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 · Public Domain“for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 17:28 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 25:29And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
- Job 12:10The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
- Psalms 36:9For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.
- Psalms 66:9He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.
- Daniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
- Luke 3:38the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
- Luke 20:38He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.”
- John 5:26For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
- John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
- Colossians 1:17He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
- Titus 1:12As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
- Hebrews 1:3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
- Hebrews 12:9Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
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