Acts 17:28 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. In Him — I. WE LIVE. Apart from Him our life would decay, and be extinguished as a flame which had been suddenly deprived of its sustaining element. II. WE MOVE. Apart from Him we are not only inert and helpless, but not even such movement as sustains the life of plants would be possible for us. III. WE HAVE OUR BEING. In Him we are; apart from Him we should not only cease to be what we are, but we should cease to be at all; it is only the hand of God that interposes between us and annihilation. (W. L. Alexander.) Parallel Verses 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. |
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