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Acts 17:28
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Acts 17:28
28For 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.
28For in him we liue, and mooue, and haue our being, as certaine also of your owne Poets haue said, For we are also his offspring.
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 17:28
Having life; having respiration and other organic functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate; not dead; Having vegetable life; to continue in constantly or habitually.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To change place; to stir, shake, prompt, influence, or set in action.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Sure, definite, established, or particular though not specifically named, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Human beings as having their life and origin from God.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
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Open the full verse study17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
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Open the full verse study3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
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Open the full verse study9For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
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Open the full verse study38For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
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Open the full verse study25Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
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Open the full verse study26For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
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Open the full verse study9Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
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Open the full verse study9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
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Open the full verse study29Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
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Open the full verse study23But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
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Open the full verse study38Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
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Open the full verse study12One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
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