Acts 17:25

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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

General references

Psalm 50:9

Bible References

Is

Unto GOD, can a man act as friend? Surely a discreet man befriendeth himself!

If thou sinnest, what canst thou work against him? Or, if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do unto him?

Not, for thy sacrifices, will I reprove thee, Nor for thine ascending-offerings, before me continually:

Wherefore, Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh - Lo! mine anger and mine indignation, are about to be poured out upon this place, On man and on beast, and On the tree of the field and On the fruit of the ground, - And it shall burn and shall not be quenched.

I hate, I despise your festivals, - and can scent no fragrance in your solemn feasts.

But go ye, and learn what this meaneth, - Mercy, I desire, and not, sacrifice; For I came, not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Seeing

For, in him, we live and move and are: as, even some of your own poets, have said - For, his offspring also, we are.

Although, not without witness, he left himself, doing good, from heaven, upon you, giving rain and fruitful seasons, filling, with food and gladness, your hearts.

So then Yahweh God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life - and man became a living soul.

And they fell upon their faces and said, O GOD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, - shall, one man, sin, and against all the assembly, wilt thou he wroth.

Let Yahweh, God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the assembly;

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all the flesh of men.

All the while my inspiration is in me, and the spirit of GOD is in my nostrils,

The spirit of GOD, hath made me, and, the inspiration of the Almighty, giveth me life.

If he should set against him his heart, His spirit and his inspiration, unto himself he should withdraw.

All of them, for thee, do wait, That thou mayest give them their food in its season;

Thus, saith GOD himself - Yahweh, - Creator of the heavens that stretched them forth, Out-spreader of earth, and the products thereof, - Giver of breath to the people thereon, And of spirit to them who walk therein,

For not age-abidingly, will I contend, Nor perpetually, will I be wroth, - For, spirit, before me, would faint, Even the breathing souls, which, I, had made.

The oracle of the word of Yahweh, on Israel, - Declareth Yahweh - Stretching out the heavens, and founding the earth, and fashioning the spirit of man within him:

That ye may become sons of your Father who is in the heavens: because, his sun, he maketh arise on evil and good, and sendeth rain, on just and unjust.

Or who hath first given unto him, and it shall be recompensed to him again?

Upon them who are rich in the present age, lay thou charge - not to be high-minded, nor to have set their hope on, riches', uncertainty, - but on God, who offereth us all things richly for enjoying,

General references

I will not take out of thy house - a bullock, Nor out of thy folds - he-goats;