Acts 17:28

New Century Version

‘By his power we live and move and exist.’ Some of your own poets have said: ‘For we are his children.’

Cross References

Job 12:10

The life of every creature and the breath of all people are in God’s hand.

Psalm 36:9

You are the giver of life. Your light lets us enjoy life.

Psalm 66:9

He protects our lives and does not let us be defeated.

Jeremiah 38:16

But King Zedekiah made a secret promise to Jeremiah, “As surely as the Lord lives who has given us breath and life, I will not kill you. And I promise not to hand you over to the officers who want to kill you.”

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have set yourself against the Lord of heaven. You ordered the drinking cups from the Temple of the Lord to be brought to you. Then you and your royal guests, your wives, and your slave women drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone that are not really gods; they cannot see or hear or understand anything. You did not honor God, who has power over your life and everything you do.

Luke 20:38

God is the God of the living, not the dead, because all people are alive to him.”

Luke 3:38

Kenan was the son of Enosh. Enosh was the son of Seth. Seth was the son of Adam. Adam was the son of God.

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will have life even if they die.

John 5:26

Life comes from the Father himself, and he has allowed the Son to have life in himself as well.

Deuteronomy 30:20

To choose life is to love the Lord your God, obey him, and stay close to him. He is your life, and he will let you live many years in the land, the land he promised to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Colossians 1:17

He was there before anything was made, and all things continue because of him.

Titus 1:12

Even one of their own prophets said, “Cretans are always liars, evil animals, and lazy people who do nothing but eat.”

Hebrews 1:3

The Son reflects the glory of God and shows exactly what God is like. He holds everything together with his powerful word. When the Son made people clean from their sins, he sat down at the right side of God, the Great One in heaven.

Hebrews 12:9

We have all had fathers here on earth who disciplined us, and we respected them. So it is even more important that we accept discipline from the Father of our spirits so we will have life.

Hebrews 2:11

Jesus, who makes people holy, and those who are made holy are from the same family. So he is not ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters.

1 Samuel 25:29

Someone might chase you to kill you, but the Lord your God will keep you alive. He will throw away your enemies’ lives as he would throw a stone from a sling.