25 nor is he served by human hands, (A)as though he needed anything, since he himself (B)gives to all mankind (C)life and breath and everything.

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Not for your sacrifices (A)do I rebuke you;
    your burnt offerings are continually before me.
I will not accept a bull from your house
    or goats from your folds.
10 For every beast of the forest is mine,
    the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 (B)I know all the birds of the hills,
    and all that moves in the field is mine.

12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
    (C)for the world and its fullness are mine.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
    or drink the blood of goats?

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then the Lord God formed the man of (A)dust from the ground and (B)breathed into his (C)nostrils the breath of life, and (D)the man became a living creature.

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35 “Or (A)who has given a gift to him
    that he might be repaid?”

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28 for

(A)“‘In him we live and move and have our being’;[a]

as even some of (B)your own poets have said,

“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:28 Probably from Epimenides of Crete
  2. Acts 17:28 From Aratus's poem “Phainomena”

Thus says God, the Lord,
    who created the heavens (A)and stretched them out,
    who spread out the earth and what comes from it,
(B)who gives breath to the people on it
    and spirit to those who walk in it:

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(A)The Spirit of God has made me,
    and (B)the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

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If you have sinned, (A)what do you accomplish against him?
    And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
(B)If you are righteous, what do you give to him?
    Or what does he receive from your hand?

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27 These (A)all look to you,
    to (B)give them their food in due season.
28 When you give it to them, they gather it up;
    when you (C)open your hand, they are filled with good things.
29 When you (D)hide your face, they are (E)dismayed;
    when you (F)take away their breath, they die
    and (G)return to their dust.
30 When you (H)send forth your Spirit,[a] they are created,
    and you (I)renew the face of the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 104:30 Or breath

(A)“Can a man be profitable to God?
    Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

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17 As for the rich in (A)this present age, charge them (B)not to be haughty, nor (C)to set their hopes on (D)the uncertainty of riches, but on God, (E)who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

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as long as my breath is in me,
    and (A)the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

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The Lord Will Give Salvation

12 (A)The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, (B)who stretched out the heavens and (C)founded the earth and (D)formed the spirit of man within him:

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I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
    (A)I have no good apart from you.”

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10 In (A)his hand is the life of every living thing
    and the breath of all mankind.

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17 Yet (A)he did not leave himself without witness, for he (B)did good by (C)giving you rains from heaven and (D)fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with (E)food and (F)gladness.”

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13 Go and learn (A)what this means: (B)‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For (C)I came not to call the righteous, (D)but sinners.”

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45 (A)so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and (B)sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

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21 (A)“I hate, I despise your feasts,
    and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
22 (B)Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
    I will not accept them;
and the peace offerings of your fattened animals,
    I will not look upon them.
23 Take away from me the noise of your songs;
    to (C)the melody of your harps I will not listen.

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20 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, (A)my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; (B)it will burn and not be quenched.”

21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (C)“Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. 22 For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them (D)concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 But this command I gave them: (E)‘Obey my voice, and (F)I will be your God, and you shall be my people. (G)And walk in all the way that I command you, (H)that it may be well with you.’

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16 (A)For I will not contend forever,
    nor will I always be angry;
for the spirit would grow faint before me,
    and the breath of life that I made.

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14 If he should (A)set his heart to it
    and (B)gather to himself his (C)spirit and his breath,

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16 “Let the Lord, (A)the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation

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22 And they (A)fell on their faces and said, “O God, (B)the God of the spirits of all flesh, (C)shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

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