Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’

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 your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’

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.

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.

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.'

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
for, , not tr
Usage: 825
Usage: 825

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

him

Usage: 0

we live
ζάω 
Zao 
live, be alive, alive, quick, lively, not tr, , vr live
Usage: 115

and



and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

κινέω 
Kineo 
Usage: 6

ἐσμέν 
Esmen 
Usage: 50

as
ὡς 
Hos 
as, when, how, as it were, about,
Usage: 417




and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

of
κατά 
Kata 
according to, after, against, in, by, daily , as,
Usage: 428

ὑμᾶς 
Humas 
you, ye, for your sakes Trans, not tr,
Usage: 314

ποιητής 
Poietes 
Usage: 6

ἐρέω 
Ereo 
Usage: 41

we are
ἐσμέν 
Esmen 
Usage: 50

Devotionals

Devotionals about Acts 17:28

Devotionals containing Acts 17:28

Images Acts 17:28

Prayers for Acts 17:28

Context Readings

Paul Speaks To The Areopagus

27 To seek the Lord, if perchance indeed they have felt for him, and found, although not being far from each one of us: 28 For in him we live, and move, and are; as certain of the composers among you have said, For we also are his race. 29 Being therefore the posterity of God, we ought not to think gold, or silver, or stone, an engraving of art, or meditation of man, the divinity to be like.


Cross References

Job 12:10

Which in his hand the soul of all living, and the spirit of all the flesh of man.

Psalm 36:9

For with thee the fountain of life: in thy light we shall see light

Daniel 5:23

And against the Lord of the heavens thou didst lift up thyself; and for the vessels of his house they brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, drinking wine in them; and to the gods of silver and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, who see not, and hear not, and know not, thou didst praise: and to the God whom thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways to him, thou didst not honor.

John 5:26

For as the Father has life in himself, so also gave he to the Son to have life in himself;

Hebrews 1:3

Who being the brightness of glory, and the figure of his foundation, and bearing all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty among the highest ones;

1 Samuel 25:29

And a man will rise to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: and the soul of my lord was bound up in the bundle of lives with Jehovah thy God; and the soul of thine enemies he will sling out in the midst of the hand of the sling.

Psalm 66:9

He set our soul in life, and he gave not our feet to waver.

Luke 3:38

Of Enos, of Seth, of Adam, of God.

Luke 20:38

And 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 rising up, and life: he believing in me, though he die, shall live.

Colossians 1:17

And he is before all, and all things have been established by him.

Titus 1:12

A certain of them said, their own prophet, The Cretians always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies.

Hebrews 12:9

Since we truly have fathers of our flesh instructors, and we were influenced: shall we not rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?

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