¹⁷ Yet he has not left himself without testimony:^(A) He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons;^(B) he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”^(C)

²⁵ And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.^{(A) 26} From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.^{(B) 27} God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.^{(C) 28} ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’^[a](D) As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’^[b]