NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 27

Acts 17:27

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that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

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Acts 17:27 in context

Acts 17:24–30

24

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

25

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.

26

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings,

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that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

28

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

29

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

30

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

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