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27 Hij bepaalde dat de mensen Hem zouden zoeken, in de hoop dat zij Hem, misschien na veel rondtasten, zouden vinden.

28 Toch is God niet ver bij ons vandaan, want in Hem leven, bewegen en zijn wij. Een van uw dichters heeft het zo gezegd: “Wij zijn uit Hem voortgekomen.”

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27 that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us: 28 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.

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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]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:28 From the Cretan philosopher Epimenides
  2. Acts 17:28 From the Cilician Stoic philosopher Aratus