Acts 17:25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

Is

Seeing

Bible References

Is

Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.

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?

O my soul, you have said to the Lord, You are my Lord: I have no good but you.

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.

Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.

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.

Seeing

For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

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.

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.

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?

Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a man at the head of this people,

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.

(For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;)

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.

If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,

All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time.

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:

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.

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:

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.

Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?

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;