Acts 17:28

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.’

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  • Job 12:10 : 10 in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
  • Col 1:17 : 17 He himself is before all things and all things are held together in him.
  • Ps 36:9 : 9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
  • John 5:26 : 26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,
  • John 11:25 : 25 Jesus said to her,“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,
  • Luke 20:38 : 38 Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live before him.”
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?
  • 1 Sam 25:29 : 29 When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag of the living by the LORD your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling’s pocket!
  • Ps 66:9 : 9 He preserves our lives and does not allow our feet to slip.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone– gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!

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    21(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)

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