Acts 17:28

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.'

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  • Job 12:10 : 10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
  • Col 1:17 : 17 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
  • Ps 36:9 : 9 For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
  • John 5:26 : 26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
  • John 11:25 : 25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
  • Luke 20:38 : 38 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
  • 1 Sam 25:29 : 29 Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.
  • Ps 66:9 : 9 who preserves our life among the living, and doesn't allow our feet to be moved.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and 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, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.

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    19 They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

    20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."

    21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

    22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

    23 For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.

    24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,

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    26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

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