Acts 17:25

New Century Version

This God is the One who gives life, breath, and everything else to people. He does not need any help from them; he has everything he needs.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed a man from it. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living person.

Romans 11:35

“No one has ever given God anything that he must pay back.”

Acts 17:28

‘By his power we live and move and exist.’ Some of your own poets have said: ‘For we are his children.’

Isaiah 42:5

God, the Lord, said these things. He created the skies and stretched them out. He spread out the earth and everything on it. He gives life to all people on earth, to everyone who walks on the earth.

Job 33:4

The Spirit of God created me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

Job 22:2

“Can anyone be of real use to God? Can even a wise person do him good?

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich with things of this world not to be proud. Tell them to hope in God, not in their uncertain riches. God richly gives us everything to enjoy.

Job 27:3

as long as I am alive and God’s breath of life is in my nose,

Zechariah 12:1

This message is the word of the Lord to Israel. This is what the Lord says, who stretched out the skies, and laid the foundations of the earth, and put the human spirit within:

Psalm 16:2

I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord. Every good thing I have comes from you.”

Job 12:10

The life of every creature and the breath of all people are in God’s hand.

Acts 14:17

Yet he proved he is real by showing kindness, by giving you rain from heaven and crops at the right times, by giving you food and filling your hearts with joy.”

Matthew 9:13

Go and learn what this means: ‘I want kindness more than I want animal sacrifices.’ I did not come to invite good people but to invite sinners.”

Matthew 5:45

If you do this, you will be true children of your Father in heaven. He causes the sun to rise on good people and on evil people, and he sends rain to those who do right and to those who do wrong.

Isaiah 57:16

I will not accuse forever, nor will I always be angry, because then human life would grow weak. Human beings, whom I created, would die.

Job 34:14

If God should decide to take away life and breath,

Numbers 27:16

“The Lord is the God of the spirits of all people. May he choose a leader for these people,

Numbers 16:22

But Moses and Aaron bowed facedown and cried out, “God, you are the God over the spirits of all people. Please don’t be angry with this whole group. Only one man has really sinned.”

Deuteronomy 30:20

To choose life is to love the Lord your God, obey him, and stay close to him. He is your life, and he will let you live many years in the land, the land he promised to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Jeremiah 38:16

But King Zedekiah made a secret promise to Jeremiah, “As surely as the Lord lives who has given us breath and life, I will not kill you. And I promise not to hand you over to the officers who want to kill you.”