Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
for in him we live and move and exist, as even some of {your own} poets have said: 'For we also are {his} offspring.'
New American Standard Bible
for
King James 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.
Holman Bible
For in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’
International Standard Version
For we live, move, and exist because of him, as some of your own poets have said: ""Since we are his children, too.'
A Conservative Version
For in him we live, and move, and exist, as also some of the performers from you have said, For of him we are also offspring.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
For in Him we live and move and exist [that is, in Him we actually have our being], as even some of
An Understandable Version
For in [the strength of] God we [all] live, move around and have our [personal] identity, just as a certain one of your [Athenian] poets [once] said, 'For we too are His children.'
Anderson New Testament
For in him we live, and move, and have our being: as also some of your own poets have said: For we his offspring are.
Bible in Basic English
For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.
Common New Testament
'For in him we live and move and have our being,' as even some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
Daniel Mace New Testament
are moved, and do exist: even as some of your own poets have said, WE ARE EVEN HIS OFFSPRING.
Darby Translation
for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.
Godbey New Testament
For in him we live and move and have our being, as indeed certain ones of your own poets have said, For we are truly his offspring.
Goodspeed New Testament
For it is through union with him that we live and move and exist, as some of your poets have said, " 'For we are also his offspring.'
John Wesley New Testament
For in him we live and move, and have our being; as certain likewise of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Julia Smith Translation
For in him we live, and move, and are; as certain of the composers among you have said, For we also are his race.
King James 2000
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.
Modern King James verseion
For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also certain of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For in him we live, move, and have our being, as certain of your own poets said. For we are also his generation.
Moffatt New Testament
for it is in him that we live and move and exist ??as some of your own poets have said, 'We too belong to His race.'
Montgomery New Testament
"for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, "'For we also are his offspring.'
NET Bible
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.'
New Heart English Bible
'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.'
Noyes New Testament
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as also some of your own poets have said: "For we are also his offspring."
Sawyer New Testament
For in him we live, and move, and are; as some also of your own poets have said, For we are his offspring.
The Emphasized Bible
For, in him, we live and move and are: as, even some of your own poets, have said - For, his offspring also, we are.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
for from him we derive life, and power of motion, and existence; as also some of your own poets have said, "For we are even his offspring."
Twentieth Century New Testament
For in him we live and move and are. To use the words of some of your own poets--'His offspring, too, are we.'
Webster
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.
Weymouth New Testament
For it is in closest union with Him that we live and move and have our being; as in fact some of the poets in repute among yourselves have said, 'For we are also His offspring.'
Williams New Testament
For it is through union with Him that we live and move and exist, as some of your own poets have said, "'For we are His offspring too.'
World English Bible
'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.'
Worrell New Testament
for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His offspring.'
Worsley New Testament
For in Him we live and move, and exist; as some also of your own poets have said, "For we his offspring are."
Youngs Literal Translation
for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.
Themes
Athens » A city » A city of greece
Children » Who are the children of God
Creator » God as » Creator of man
natural Life » God is the author of
Man » A social being » Creation of
Missionary journeys » Ac 13-14 » Second - with silas
Paul's » First - with barnabas and john mark ac 13-14 » Second - with silas
Topics
Interlinear
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
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Devotionals
Devotionals about Acts 17:28
Devotionals containing Acts 17:28
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 17:28
Prayers for Acts 17:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul Speaks To The Areopagus
27 to search for God, if perhaps indeed they might feel around for him and find [him]. And indeed he is not far away from each one of us, 28 for in him we live and move and exist, as even some of {your own} poets have said: 'For we also are {his} offspring.' 29 Therefore, [because we] are offspring of God, we ought not to think the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 12:10
In whose hand [is] the life of all living things and {the breath of every human being}?
Psalm 36:9
For with you is [the] fountain of life; in your light we see light.
Daniel 5:23
And [now] you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven, and the vessels of his temple you have brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have been drinking wine from them, and you have praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone that [do] not see and [do] not hear and [do] not know, but the God {who holds your life in his hand} and all of your ways {come from him}, you have not honored.
John 5:26
For just as the Father has life in himself, thus also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself.
Hebrews 1:3
who is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, sustaining all [things] by the word of power. [When he] had made purification for sins through him, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
1 Samuel 25:29
Should a man arise to pursue you and to seek your life, may the life of my lord be wrapped in the pouch of the living with Yahweh your God. But as for the life of your enemy, he will sling it from within the pocket of the sling!
Psalm 66:9
the one who has kept our soul among the living, and has not allowed our foot to slip.
Luke 3:38
the [son] of Enosh, the [son] of Seth, the [son] of Adam, the [son] of God.
Luke 20:38
Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him!"
John 11:25
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live,
Colossians 1:17
and he himself is before all [things], and in him all [things] are held together,
Titus 1:12
A certain one of them, [one of] their own prophets, has said, "Cretans [are] always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."
Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we have had {our earthly fathers} who disciplined [us], and we respected [them]. Will we not much rather subject ourselves to the Father of spirits and live?