Acts 17:25
Good News Translation
Nor does he need anything that we can supply by working for him, since it is he himself who gives life and breath and everything else to everyone.

New Revised Standard Version
nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things.

Contemporary English Version
He doesn't need help from anyone. He gives life, breath, and everything else to all people.

New American Bible
nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither is he served with men's hands, as though he needed any thing: seeing it is he who giveth to all life and breath and all things:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Neither is he served with men's hands, as though he needed any thing: seeing it is he who giveth to all life and breath and all things:

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Job 22:2 Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?

Job 35:6,7 If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him? . . .

Psalm 16:2 I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods.

Psalm 50:8-13 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight. . . .

Jeremiah 7:20-23 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my wrath and my indignation is enkindled against this place, upon men and upon beasts, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruits of the land, and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. . . .

Amos 5:21-23 I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies. . . .

Matthew 9:13 Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.

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Acts 17:28 For in him we live and move and are: as some also of your own poets said: For we are also his offspring.

Acts 14:17 Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful Seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Numbers 16:22 They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath rage against all?

Numbers 27:16 May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man, that may be over this multitude:

Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.

Job 27:3 As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

Job 33:4 The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

Job 34:14 If he turn his heart to him, he shall draw his spirit and breath unto himself.

Psalm 104:27-30 All expect of thee that thou give them food in season. . . .

Isaiah 42:5 Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon.

Isaiah 57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings I will make.

Zechariah 12:1 The burden of the word of the Lord upon Israel. Thus saith the Lord, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundations of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man in him:

Matthew 5:45 That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.

Romans 11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?

1 Timothy 6:17 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy)

Context
Paul Before the Areopagus
24God, who made the world and all things therein, he being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands. 25Neither is he served with men's hands, as though he needed any thing: seeing it is he who giveth to all life and breath and all things: 26And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:20
And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them.

Job 22:2
Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?

Psalm 50:10
For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.

Isaiah 42:5
Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon.

Jeremiah 38:16
Then king Sedecias swore to Jeremiah, in private, saying: As the Lord liveth, that, made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, nor will I deliver thee into the hands of these men that seek thy life.

Acts 17:24
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