Acts 17:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as also some of your own poets have said, For we are His offspring.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    For in him we live and move and have our being, as some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For{G1063} in{G1722} him{G846} we live{G2198}{(G5719)}, and{G2532} move{G2795}{(G5743)}, and{G2532} have our being{G2070}{(G5748)}; as{G5613} certain{G5100} also{G2532} of your{G5209} own{G2596} poets{G4163} have said{G2046}{(G5758)}, For{G1063} we are{G2070}{(G5748)} also{G2532} his{G5120} offspring{G1085}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    For in him we lyve move and have oure beynge as certayne of youre awne Poetes sayde. For we are also his generacion.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For in him we lyue, moue, and haue oure beynge, as certayne of youre awne Poetes also haue sayde: We are his generacion.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For in him we liue, and mooue, and haue our being, as also certaine of your owne Poets haue sayd, for we are also his generation.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For in hym we liue, and moue, & haue our beyng, as certaine of your owne poetes sayde: for we are also his offpryng.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said,‘For we too are his offspring.’

Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:10 : 10 In His hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 Who being the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
  • Col 1:17 : 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
  • John 11:25 : 25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live:
  • Ps 36:9 : 9 For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.
  • Luke 20:38 : 38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we respected them: shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
  • 1 Sam 25:29 : 29 Yet a man has risen to pursue you and seek your life; but the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God; and the lives of your enemies, He shall sling out, as from the pocket of a sling.
  • Ps 66:9 : 9 Who keeps our soul among the living, and does not allow our feet to be moved.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them, and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.

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    18 Known to God are all His works from the beginning of the world.

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    5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

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    30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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    22 In whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.

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    25 Who by the mouth of Your servant David has said, Why did the nations rage, and the people plot vain things?

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    23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

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