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.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

Job 12:10

It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power.

Job 27:3

as long as God gives me breath,

Job 33:4

God's spirit made me and gave me life.

Job 34:14

If God took back the breath of life,

Psalm 16:2

I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; all the good things I have come from you.”

Isaiah 42:5

God created the heavens and stretched them out; he fashioned the earth and all that lives there; he gave life and breath to all its people. And now the Lord God says to his servant,

Isaiah 57:16

I gave my people life, and I will not continue to accuse them or be angry with them forever.

Jeremiah 38:16

So King Zedekiah promised me in secret, “I swear by the living God, the God who gave us life, that I will not put you to death or hand you over to the men who want to kill you.”

Zechariah 12:1

This is a message about Israel from the Lord, the Lord who spread out the skies, created the earth, and gave life to man. He says,

Numbers 16:22

But Moses and Aaron bowed down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, you are the source of all life. When one of us sins, do you become angry with the whole community?”

Numbers 27:16

“Lord God, source of all life, appoint, I pray, a man who can lead the people

Matthew 5:45

so that you may become the children of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil.

Matthew 9:13

Go and find out what is meant by the scripture that says: ‘It is kindness that I want, not animal sacrifices.’ I have not come to call respectable people, but outcasts.”

Acts 14:17

But he has always given evidence of his existence by the good things he does: he gives you rain from heaven and crops at the right times; he gives you food and fills your hearts with happiness.”

Acts 17:28

as someone has said, ‘In him we live and move and exist.’ It is as some of your poets have said, ‘We too are his children.’

Romans 11:35

Who has ever given him anything, so that he had to pay it back?”

Deuteronomy 30:20

Love the Lord your God, obey him and be faithful to him, and then you and your descendants will live long in the land that he promised to give your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich in the things of this life not to be proud, but to place their hope, not in such an uncertain thing as riches, but in God, who generously gives us everything for our enjoyment.