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Acts 17:27-29
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Acts 17:27-29
Tree of Life Version
[a] 27 They were to search for Him, and perhaps grope around for Him and find Him. Yet He is not far from each one of us, [b] 28 for ‘In Him we live and move and have our being.’
As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His offspring.’ [c] 29 Since we are His offspring, we ought not to suppose the Deity is like gold or silver or stone, an engraved image of human art and imagination.
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- Acts 17:27 cf. Deut. 32:8; Job 12:23.
- Acts 17:28 cf. Deut. 4:7; Jer. 23:23.
- Acts 17:29 Quotes from Epimenides and Aratus.
Acts 17:27-29
New International Version
Acts 17:27-29
New International Version
27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.(A) 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[a](B) As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’[b]
29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.(C)
Footnotes
- Acts 17:28 From the Cretan philosopher Epimenides
- Acts 17:28 From the Cilician Stoic philosopher Aratus
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