Acts 17:27-29

Expanded Bible

²⁷ God wanted them to ·look for [seek] him and perhaps ·search all around for [grope for; reach out to; feel their way towards] him and find him, though he is not far from any of us: ²⁸ ‘[^LFor] ·By his power [or In him] we live and move and ·exist [have our being; ^Ca quotation from the Cretan philosopher Epimenides, from about 600 bc].’ [^LAs] Some of your own poets have said: ‘For we are his ·children [offspring; ^Ca quotation from Aratus, a Stoic philosopher from Cilicia, who lived about 315–240 bc].’ ²⁹ Since we are God’s ·children [offspring], you must not think that ·God [the deity; or the divine nature] is like ·something [an image/likeness] ·that people imagine or make [^Lmade by human skill and imagination] from gold, silver, or rock.