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.
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Acts 17:26-30
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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 Greek countryman of the apostle, and his predecessor by about three centuries. But, as he hints, the same sentiment is to be found in other Greek poets.
Other Bible passages linked to this one, most cited first.
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Who 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;
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
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