Acts 17:28

Acts 17:28 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
• English Standard Version (ESV)for "'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.'
• New King James Version (NKJV)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.’

Context of Acts 17:28

26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 27That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: 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. 29Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. 30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

Acts 17:28 word by word

ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ ζῶμεν καὶ κινούμεθα καὶ ἐσμέν, ὡς καί τινες τῶν καθ᾽ ὑμᾶς ποιητῶν εἰρήκασιν· τοῦ γὰρ καὶ γένος ἐσμέν.Read the interlinear

• Forγάρgar · forG1063
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• himαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• we liveζάωzaō · to liveG2198
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• moveκινέωkineō · to moveG2795
• have our beingεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• asὡςhōs · as/whenG5613
• certainτιςtis · oneG5100
• ofκατάkata · according toG2596
• your ownσύsu · youG4771
• poetsὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• poetsποιητήςpoiētēs · doerG4163
• have saidἐρῶereō · to sayG2046
• his offspringγένοςgenos · family: descendantG1085

Cross-references for Acts 17:28

• 1 Samuel 25:29Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Yhwh thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
• Job 12:10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
• Psalms 36:9For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
• Psalms 66:9Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
• Luke 20:38For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
• John 5:26For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
• John 11:25Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
• Colossians 1:17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
• Hebrews 1:3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
• Luke 3:38Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
• Hebrews 12:9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Commentaries on Acts 17:28

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 28For in him we live, and move, and have our being - He is the very source of our existence: the principle of life comes from him: the principle of motion, also, comes from him; one of the most difficult things in nature to be properly apprehended; and a strong proof of the continual presence and energy of the Deity. And have our being - , And we are: we live in him, move in him, and are in him. Without him we not only can do nothing, but without him we are…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28For in him we live - The expression “in him” evidently means by him; by his originally forming us, and continually sustaining us. No words can better express our constant dependence on God. He is the original fountain of life, and he upholds us each moment. A similar sentiment is found in Plautus (5,4,14): “O Jupiter, who dost cherish and nourish the race of man; by whom we live, and with whom is the hope of the life of all men” (Kuinoel). It does not…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 22-31Verses 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22-31Paul’s sermon in Athens shows how well he could adapt his preaching of the good news (Romans 11:14; 1 Corinthians 9:19–23; 10:33; compare Acts 16:3; 17:2–3; 21:20–26). His Greek audience did not know the Scriptures or believe in one God like the Jews. However, they had a strong intellectual background. Paul connected with them using an Athenian inscription on an altar TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. He then explained God’s nature as the Creator (17:22–29), followed by…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2828. For in him we live, and move, and have our being--(or, more briefly, "exist").--This means, not merely, "Without Him we have no life, nor that motion which every inanimate nature displays, nor even existence itself" [Meyer], but that God is the living, immanent Principle of all these in men. as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring--the first half of the fifth line, word for word, of an astronomical poem of Aratus, a…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Acts 17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings