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Acts 17:27-29
English Standard Version
Acts 17:27-29
English Standard Version
27 (A)that they should seek God, (B)and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. (C)Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for
as even some of (E)your own poets have said,
“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’[b]
29 (F)Being then God's offspring, (G)we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
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- Acts 17:28 Probably from Epimenides of Crete
- Acts 17:28 From Aratus's poem “Phainomena”
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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