Acts 17:28

for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring. '

1. We owe our very existence to Him. It is in and through God that we live, have the ability to move, and have our personality, character, and very being.

2. Then Paul quotes a Greek poet. There are several Greek poets that express the thought quoted here. Albert Barnes adds, "This precise expression is found in Aratus ("Phaenom.," v. 5), and in Cleanthus in a hymn to Jupiter. Substantially the same sentiment is found in several other Greek poets. Aratus was a Greek poet of Cilicia the native place of Paul, and flourished about 277 years before Christ."

3. We are his offspring - We come from God. This explains our spirit, our soul, our nature, our origin, and our destiny.