Acts 17:27-29

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²⁷so that they would search for God^[a] and perhaps fumble about for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us.^(A) ²⁸For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said,

‘For we, too, are his offspring.’^(B)

²⁹“Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals.^(C)