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`For in him we live, and move, and have our being.` As some of your own poets have said, `For we are also his offspring.`
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Dependent on God for Every Breath
Commentators explain that the phrase "in him we live, and move, and have our being" describes our absolute and constant dependence on God. He is not a distant creator but the one who actively sustains our life, enables our every motion, and upholds our very existence at every moment. This truth counters any idea of a God who is uninvolved in His creation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Verse 28: For in him we live. The expression "in him" evidently means by Him—by His originally forming us and continually sustaining us. N…
For in him (εν αυτω γαρ). Proof of God's nearness, not stoic pantheism, but real immanence in God as God dwells in us. The three v…
19th Century
Anglican
For in him we live, and move, and have our being.—Better, we live, and are moved, and are. Each of the verbs use…
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The substance of the Athenian address concerns the nature of God and the responsibility of human beings to God. Contrary to all pantheistic and pol…
16th Century
Protestant
For in him. I grant that the apostles, according to the Hebrew phrase, often take this preposition in for by or thro…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For in him we live, and move, and have our being The natural life which men live is from God; and they are supported…
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Here we have a sermon addressed to heathens, who worshipped false gods and were without the true God in the world. For them, the scope of the disco…
