Acts 17:25
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”
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“Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;”
King James Version · Public Domain“neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“neither by the hands of men is He served--needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 17:25 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- Numbers 16:22But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”
- Numbers 27:16“May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
- Job 12:10The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
- Job 22:2“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
- Job 27:3as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
- Job 33:4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
- Job 34:14If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
- Job 35:6If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
- Psalms 16:2I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
- Psalms 50:8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
- Psalms 104:27All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.
- Isaiah 42:5This is what God the LORD says— He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
- Isaiah 57:16For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.
- Jeremiah 7:20Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
- Amos 5:21“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
- Zechariah 12:1This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:
- Matthew 5:45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
- Matthew 9:13But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
- Acts 14:17Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
- Acts 17:28‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
- Romans 11:35“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”
- 1 Timothy 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
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