Daniel 4:17

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¹⁷“‘The decision is announced by messengers, the holy ones declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the Most High^(A) is sovereign^(B) over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets over them the lowliest^(C) of people.’

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Daniel 4:25

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²⁵You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like the ox and be drenched^(A) with the dew of heaven. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High^(B) is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes.^(C)

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Acts 17:22-25

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²²Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus^(A) and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.^(B) ²³For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship^(C)—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

²⁴“The God who made the world and everything in it^(D) is the Lord of heaven and earth^(E) and does not live in temples built by human hands.^(F) ²⁵And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.^(G)