Acts 17:25
He doesn't need to be served by us as if he needed anything, since he is the source of all life for every living being.
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Numbers 16:22But Moses and Aaron fell facedown on the ground said, “God—God of everything that lives—when it's only one man who sins, must you be angry with everybody?”
Job 12:10He gives life to every living thing, life to all humankind.
Job 27:3for as long as I have life, while the breath of God remains in my nostrils—
Job 34:14If he were to withdraw his spirit, if he were to take back his breath,
Psalms 16:2I tell the Lord, “Apart from you Lord, I don't have anything that's good.”
Psalms 104:27All creatures look to you to give them food at the right time.
Matthew Henry on Acts 17:23-32
Paul at Athens. 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. 23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. 24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed… Read the whole commentary →