Acts 17:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

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  • Job 22:2 : 2 Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 (For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;)
  • Job 33:4 : 4 The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
  • Job 35:6-7 : 6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him? 7 If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?
  • Ps 50:8-9 : 8 I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me. 9 I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks; 10 For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. 11 I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth. 13 Am I to take the flesh of the ox for my food, or the blood of goats for my drink?
  • Isa 42:5 : 5 God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:
  • Acts 17:28 : 28 For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.
  • Rom 11:35 : 35 Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?
  • 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.
  • Matt 9:13 : 13 But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.
  • Jer 7:20-23 : 20 So this is what the Lord God has said: See, my wrath and my passion will be let loose on this place, on man and beast, and on the trees of the field, and on the produce of the earth; it will be burning and will not be put out. 21 These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food. 22 For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts: 23 But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.
  • Amos 5:21-23 : 21 Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings. 22 Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts. 23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.
  • Ps 104:27-30 : 27 All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time. 28 They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand. 29 If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust. 30 If you send out your spirit, they are given life; you make new the face of the earth.
  • Ps 16:2 : 2 O my soul, you have said to the Lord, You are my Lord: I have no good but you.
  • Num 16:22 : 22 Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people?
  • Num 27:16 : 16 Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a man at the head of this people,
  • Job 12:10 : 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.
  • Job 34:14 : 14 If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,
  • Acts 14:17 : 17 But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.

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