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Acts 17:27
That they should seek God, if haply they may feel after him or find him, although he be not far from every one of us.
Acts 17:27 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Acts 17:27 in other translations
That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.
that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
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In context
24 God, who made the world and all things therein, he being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
25 Neither is he served with men's hands, as though he needed any thing: seeing it is he who giveth to all life and breath and all things:
26 And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.
27 That they should seek God, if haply they may feel after him or find him, although he be not far from every one of us.
28 For in him we live and move and are: as some also of your own poets said: For we are also his offspring.
29 Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the divinity to be like unto gold or silver or stone, the graving of art and device of man.
30 And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men that all should every where do penance.
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