Logos Bible Study

Acts 17:28

The Lexham English BibleOther versions

English

Arabic

Czech

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Italian

Korean

Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Simplified Chinese

Spanish

Traditional Chinese

28for in him we live and move and exist,i as even some of your ownj poets have said: ‘For we also are hisk offspring.’l

Read in Logos

Footnotes

  1. iSome interpreters hold that the phrase “in him we live and move and exist” is a quotation from Epimenides of Crete, but more likely it is a traditional Greek formula
  2. jLiterally “with respect to you”
  3. kLiterally “of him”
  4. lA quotation from Aratus, Phaenomena 5

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

for

“ ‘In him we live and move and have our being’;

as even some of your own poets have said,

“ ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For in him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

NLTNew Living Translation

For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

KJV 1900King James Version

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.