Acts 17:28

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For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring. Acts 17:28 (BBE)

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Acts 17:28 shows Paul engaging a pagan audience without flattering paganism. He uses language from their world to expose their failure to know the God who gives life.

Contexte dans le chapitre

At the Areopagus Paul is not praising Athenian spirituality. He is confronting idolatry and pressing his hearers toward repentance by proclaiming the God they have ignored.

⚔️ Affrontement

This verse is often used to justify vague spirituality. In context it does the opposite: God’s nearness in creation makes rebellion more guilty, not less.

🧭 Prudence interprétative

Paul is not endorsing pagan poets wholesale. He is seizing a true fragment in order to press home the claims of the living God.

Connexions avec d'autres Écritures

Isaiah 42:5 Aller au texte

Isaiah also ties life and breath directly to God’s sustaining action.

Colossians 1:16-17 Aller au texte

Paul later roots all created life and continued coherence in Christ himself.

Points d'enseignement

Common language can be used missionally without surrendering revelation.
God’s sustaining presence leaves humanity without excuse.
Faithful witness exposes idolatry rather than decorating it.

Questions d'étude biblique

Where do modern Christians confuse cultural contact with spiritual approval?
How does Paul move from shared language to a call for repentance?

Acts 17:22-31 Deep

Creation apologetics becomes a summons to repent before the risen Judge

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Paul does not stop at common ground. He moves from the God who made all things to the command that all people everywhere must repent because the risen man appointed by God will judge the world.

Personnes, lieux, événements et contexte

Personnes

Paul Paul models bold, intelligent witness before a skeptical elite audience.

Athenian philosophers Stoic and Epicurean listeners represent a culture that was intellectually alive and spiritually blind.

Lieux

Areopagus A public civic-philosophical setting where Paul addresses the city’s thought-world directly.

Événements

Areopagus address This sermon moves from creation and providence to repentance and coming judgment.

Contexte culturel

Quoted pagan poets Paul cites familiar lines from Greek culture, not to baptize pagan religion, but to show that even their own words leave them accountable before God.

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ASV

for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

BSB

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

DBY

for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.

DRA

For in him we live, and move, and are; as some also of your own poets said: For we are also his offspring.

FBV

In him we live, move, and exist. Just as one of your own poets wrote, ‘We are his family.’”

GNV

For in him we liue, and mooue, and haue our being, as also certaine of your owne Poets haue sayd, for we are also his generation.

KJV

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.

OJB

For “we live in Him and in Him we move and have our being,” as also some of your poets have said, “For we are all His offspring.”