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[a] 27 They were to search for Him, and perhaps grope around for Him and find Him. Yet He is not far from each one of us, [b] 28 for ‘In Him we live and move and have our being.’

As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His offspring.’ [c] 29 Since we are His offspring, we ought not to suppose the Deity is like gold or silver or stone, an engraved image of human art and imagination.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:27 cf. Deut. 32:8; Job 12:23.
  2. Acts 17:28 cf. Deut. 4:7; Jer. 23:23.
  3. Acts 17:29 Quotes from Epimenides and Aratus.