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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Acts 17:28 → Genesis 1:27

Echo

Later text

Acts 17:28BSB

‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

Earlier text

Genesis 1:27BSB

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Significance

Paul clinches his argument with the words of the Greek poets, which nonetheless speak a deeper truth: "For in Him we live and move and have our being... We are His offspring" (Acts 17:28). That humanity is God's offspring is grounded in Genesis, where God "created man in His own image" (Genesis 1:27), giving every person a kinship to the Creator that no idol shares. Paul presses the point in the next verse — being God's offspring, made in his likeness, we must not imagine the divine is like gold or stone shaped by human craft. The image-bearing that makes humanity God's offspring finds its truth and its repair in Christ, "the image of the invisible God" (Colossians 1:15), through whom the marred image is remade in all who behold him (2 Corinthians 3:18).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy