Acts 17:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁸For 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 12:10
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Colossians 1:17
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Hebrews 1:3
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;
Psalms 36:9
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
Luke 20:38
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-31)

We have here St. Paul’s sermon at Athens. Divers sermons we have had, which the apostles preached to the Jews, or such Gentiles as had an acquaintance with and veneration for the Old Testament, and were worshippers of the true and living God; and all they had to do with them was to open and allege that Jesus is the Christ; but here we have a sermon to heathens, that worshipped false gods, and were…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 28)

28. 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…