25 Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He (A)gives to all life, breath, and all things.

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(A)I will not [a]rebuke you (B)for your sacrifices
Or your burnt offerings,
Which are continually before Me.
(C)I will not take a bull from your house,
Nor goats out of your folds.
10 For every beast of the forest is Mine,
And the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 I know all the birds of the mountains,
And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
(D)For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.
13 (E)Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
Or drink the blood of goats?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 50:8 reprove

If you sin, what do you accomplish (A)against Him?
Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?
(B)If you are righteous, what do you give Him?
Or what does He receive from your hand?

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

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“Can(A) a man be profitable to God,
Though he who is wise may be profitable to himself?

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35 “Or(A) who has first given to Him
And it shall be repaid to him?”

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As long as my breath is in me,
And the breath of God in my nostrils,

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

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Instructions to the Rich

17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain (A)riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things (B)to enjoy.

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28 for (A)in Him we live and move and have our being, (B)as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

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13 But go and learn what this means: (A)‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, (B)but sinners, [a]to repentance.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 9:13 NU omits to repentance

The Coming Deliverance of Judah

12 The [a]burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, (A)who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and (B)forms the spirit of man within him:

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 12:1 oracle, prophecy

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

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