26 And (A)he made from one man every nation of mankind to live (B)on all the face of the earth, (C)having determined allotted periods and (D)the boundaries of their dwelling place, 27 (E)that they should seek God, (F)and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. (G)Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for

(H)“‘In him we live and move and have our being’;[a]

as even some of (I)your own poets have said,

“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’[b]

29 (J)Being then God's offspring, (K)we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:28 Probably from Epimenides of Crete
  2. Acts 17:28 From Aratus's poem “Phainomena”

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