Acts 17:25 “Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He…”

Acts 17:25

Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.

American Standard Version

neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

Geneva Bible 1599

Neither is worshipped with mens handes, as though he needed any thing, seeing hee giueth to all life and breath and all things,

Darby Translation

nor is served by men's hands as needing something, himself giving to all life and breath and all things;

Young's Literal Translation

neither by the hands of men is He served — needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;

Bible in Basic English

And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

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Cross references

“is”

Psalm 50:8–13 Job 22:2 Psalm 16:2 Jeremiah 7:20–23 Amos 5:21–23 Matthew 9:13

Psalm 50:8–13 · BSB

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.

Job 22:2 · BSB

“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?

Psalm 16:2 · BSB

I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”

Jeremiah 7:20–23 · BSB

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.

Amos 5:21–23 · BSB

“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

Matthew 9:13 · BSB

But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners. ”

“seeing”

Genesis 2:7 Isaiah 42:5 Acts 17:28 Job 33:4 Romans 11:35 Job 12:10

Genesis 2:7 · BSB

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Isaiah 42:5 · BSB

This is what God the LORD says— He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

Acts 17:28 · BSB

‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

Job 33:4 · BSB

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Romans 11:35 · BSB

“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”

Job 12:10 · BSB

The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.

26From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

Read Acts 17