Acts 17:27

New Century Version

God wanted them to look for him and perhaps search all around for him and find him, though he is not far from any of us:

Cross References

1 Kings 8:27

“But, God, can you really live here on the earth? The sky and the highest place in heaven cannot contain you. Surely this house which I have built cannot contain you.

Acts 14:17

Yet he proved he is real by showing kindness, by giving you rain from heaven and crops at the right times, by giving you food and filling your hearts with joy.”

Acts 15:17

Then those people who are left alive may ask the Lord for help, and the other nations that belong to me, says the Lord, who will make it happen.

Romans 1:20

There are things about him that people cannot see—his eternal power and all the things that make him God. But since the beginning of the world those things have been easy to understand by what God has made. So people have no excuse for the bad things they do.

Romans 2:4

He has been very kind and patient, waiting for you to change, but you think nothing of his kindness. Perhaps you do not understand that God is kind to you so you will change your hearts and lives.

Deuteronomy 4:7

No other nation is as great as we are. Their gods do not come near them, but the Lord our God comes near when we pray to him.