Acts 17:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

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  • Job 12:10 : 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;
  • Col 1:17 : 17 He is before all things, and in him all things have being.
  • Ps 36:9 : 9 For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.
  • John 5:26 : 26 For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.
  • John 11:25 : 25 Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;
  • Luke 20:38 : 38 Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living: for all men are living to him.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?
  • 1 Sam 25:29 : 29 And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.
  • Ps 66:9 : 9 Because he gives us life, and has not let our feet be moved.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;

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    29If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.

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    18And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead.

    19And they took him to Mars' Hill, saying, Will you make clear to us what is this new teaching of yours?

    20For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.

    21(Now all the Athenians and the men from other lands who come there were giving all their time to talking or hearing of anything new.)

    22And Paul got to his feet on Mars' Hill and said, O men of Athens, I see that you are overmuch given to fear of the gods.

    23For when I came by, I was looking at the things to which you give worship, and I saw an altar with this writing on it, TO THE GOD OF WHOM THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE. Now, what you, without knowledge, give worship to, I make clear to you.

    24The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;

    25And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

    26And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

    27So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:

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    15Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

    16Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.

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    5For though there are those who have the name of gods, in heaven or on earth, as there are a number of gods and a number of lords,

    6There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.

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    10For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

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    19Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.

    20For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

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    15For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

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    3Be certain that the Lord is God; it is he who has made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep to whom he gives food.

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    9For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

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    8As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

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    18Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.

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    16Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

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    5Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

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    8For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged.

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    9For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

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    6One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

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    13And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

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    18Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.

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    5Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;

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    30Because we are parts of his body.

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    9For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,

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    14Even as you have been ready, in part, to say that we are your glory, in the same way that you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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    13For if we are foolish, it is to God; or if we are serious, it is for you.

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    25Who has said, by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David your servant, Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?

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    16The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God:

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    14And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.

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    23And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

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