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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
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.
Read it in 5 translations
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.’
WEB World English Bible
‘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.’
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.
Surrounding context — Acts 17
25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And 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;
27 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:
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.
29 Forasmuch 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.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
31 Because 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.
Topics connected to this verse
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongαὐτῷG846 · autosit/s/heγὰρG1063 · garforζῶμενG2198 · zaōto liveκαὶG2532 · kaiandκινούμεθαG2795 · kineōto moveκαὶG2532 · kaiandἐσμέν,G1510 · eimito beὡςG5613 · hōsas/whenκαίG2532 · kaiandτινεςG5100 · tisoneτῶνG3588 · hothe/this/whoκαθ᾽G2596 · kataaccording toὑμᾶςG4771 · suyouποιητῶνG4163 · poiētēsdoerεἰρήκασιν·G2046 · erōto sayτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoγὰρG1063 · garforκαὶG2532 · kaiandγένοςG1085 · genosfamily: descendantἐσμέν.G1510 · eimito be
Cross-references
Job 12:10In whose hand [is] the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.Colossians 1:17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.Hebrews 1:3Who 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;Psalm 36:9For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.Luke 20:38For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.John 11:25Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:John 5:26For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;Psalm 66:9Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.Hebrews 12:9Furthermore 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?1 Samuel 25:29Yet 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.Daniel 5:23But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath [is], and whose [are] all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:Luke 3:38Which was [the son] of Enos, which was [the son] of Seth, which was [the son] of Adam, which was [the son] of God.Titus 1:12One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians [are] alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION
Compare classic commentaries on Acts 17:28
Put Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Calvin, Wesley, Barnes, Jamieson–Fausset–Brown, Aquinas’ Catena and other public-domain sources beside the passage.
Compare commentaries →