Acts 17:27
Good News Translation
He did this so that they would look for him, and perhaps find him as they felt around for him. Yet God is actually not far from any one of us;

New Revised Standard Version
so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us.

Contemporary English Version
God has done all this, so that we will look for him and reach out and find him. He isn't far from any of us,

New American Bible
so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

they.

Acts 15:17 That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all nations upon whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who doth these things.

Psalm 19:1-6 Unto the end. A Psalm for David. [2] The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the work of his hands. . . .

Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. His eternal power also and divinity: so that they are inexcusable.

Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

he be.

Acts 14:17 Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful Seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

1 Kings 8:27 Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?

Psalm 139:1-13 Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me: . . .

Jeremiah 23:23,24 Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? . . .

Context
Paul Before the Areopagus
26And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation. 27That they should seek God, if haply they may feel after him or find him, although he be not far from every one of us. 28For in him we live and move and are: as some also of your own poets said: For we are also his offspring.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:7
Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions.

Jeremiah 23:23
Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?

Acts 14:17
Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful Seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Acts 17:26
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