NET Bible
"so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us."
— Acts 17:27, NET Bible
“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:”
“that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after 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.”
“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.”
“So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:”
The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,
nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.
From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,
so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said,‘For we too are his offspring.’
So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.
Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,