²⁸ For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

¹⁷ And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

³ Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:

⁹ For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

²⁶ For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

³⁸ For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

²⁵ Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

⁹ Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

²³ But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: