Acts 17:28

In 9 translations

BSB

‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’This is probably a quote from the Cretan philosopher Epimenides of Knossos.This is probably a quote from the poem “Phainomena” by the Cilician philosopher Aratus.

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.

WEB

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some 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.

LSV

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

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.

DRC

For in him we live, and move, and are; as some also of your own poets said: For we are also his offspring.

GNV

For in him we liue, and mooue, and haue our being, as also certaine of your owne Poets haue sayd, for we are also his generation.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ ζῶμεν καὶ κινούμεθα καὶ ἐσμέν, ὡς καί τινες τῶν καθʼ ὑμᾶς ποιητῶν εἰρήκασιν· Τοῦ γὰρ καὶ γένος ἐσμέν.

RP2018

Ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ ζῶμεν καὶ κινούμεθα καί ἐσμεν· ὡς καί τινες τῶν καθ’ ὑμᾶς ποιητῶν εἰρήκασιν, Τοῦ γὰρ καὶ γένος ἐσμέν.

TR-Boyd

Ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ ζῶμεν καὶ κινούμεθα καί ἐσμεν· ὡς καί τινες τῶν καθ᾿ ὑμᾶς ποιητῶν εἰρήκασι, Τοῦ γὰρ καὶ γένος ἐσμέν.

SCR1894

εν αυτω γαρ ζωμεν και κινουμεθα και εσμεν ως και τινες των καθ υμας ποιητων ειρηκασιν του γαρ και γενος εσμεν

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• Job 12:10The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
• Colossians 1:17He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
• Hebrews 1:3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on…
• Psalms 36:9For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.
• Luke 20:38He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.”
• John 5:26For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
• John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
• Psalms 66:9He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.
• Hebrews 12:9Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
• 1 Samuel 25:29And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a…
• Daniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver…
• Luke 3:38the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
• Titus 1:12As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

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