Acts 17:28 Parallel Translations

Certainly, we live, move, and exist because of him. As some of your poets have said, 'We are God's children.'(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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.

ASV:

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.

BBE:

For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

DBY:

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.

ERV:

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.

WEY:

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.'

WBS:

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.

WEB:

'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.'

YLT:

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

Acts 17:28 Cross References

XREF:

Job 12:10 In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

Daniel 5:23 but you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and your ways, you have not glorified. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

17:28 Certain also of your own poets. Aratus, who wrote about 200 years before. Also Cleanthes, in his Hymn to Jupiter.

WES:

17:28 In him - Not in ourselves, we live, and move, and have our being - This denotes his necessary, intimate, and most efficacious presence. No words can better express the continual and necessary dependence of all created beings, in their existence and all their operations, on the first and almighty cause, which the truest philosophy as well as divinity teaches. As certain also of your own poets have said - Aratus, whose words these are, was an Athenian, who lived almost three hundred years before this time. They are likewise to be found, with the alteration of one letter only, in the hymn of Cleanthes to Jupiter or the supreme being, one of the purest and finest pieces of natural religion in the whole world of Pagan antiquity.

MHC:

17:22-31 Here we have a sermon to heathens, who worshipped false gods, and were without the true God in the world; and to them the scope of the discourse was different from what the apostle preached to the Jews. In the latter case, his business was to lead his hearers by prophecies and miracles to the knowledge of the Redeemer, and faith in him; in the former, it was to lead them, by the common works of providence, to know the Creator, and worship Him. The apostle spoke of an altar he had seen, with the inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. This fact is stated by many writers. After multiplying their idols to the utmost, some at Athens thought there was another god of whom they had no knowledge. And are there not many now called Christians, who are zealous in their devotions, yet the great object of their worship is to them an unknown God? Observe what glorious things Paul here says of that God whom he served, and would have them to serve. The Lord had long borne with idolatry, but the times of this ignorance were now ending, and by his servants he now commanded all men every where to repent of their idolatry. Each sect of the learned men would feel themselves powerfully affected by the apostle's discourse, which tended to show the emptiness or falsity of their doctrines.

CONC:

Amongst Closest Exist Existence Fact Indeed Motion Move Offspring Poets Repute Union Verse Writers Yourselves

Amongst Children Closest Exist Existence Fact Him Indeed Live Motion Move Offspring Poets Repute Union Verse Yourselves

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