Acts 17:28-30
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
28 For ‘In him we live and move and have our being,’[a] as even some of your poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ 29 Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.(A) 30 God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that all people everywhere repent
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- 17:28 ‘In him we live and move and have our being’: some scholars understand this saying to be based on an earlier saying of Epimenides of Knossos (6th century B.C.). ‘For we too are his offspring’: here Paul is quoting Aratus of Soli, a third-century B.C. poet from Cilicia.
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