He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Acts 17:25 in context
Acts 17:22–28
22
Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
23
For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.
24
The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
25
Selected verse
He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.
26
He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings,
27
that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
28
‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
Continue with Acts 17
Read the complete chapter in World English Bible Updated.
Open Acts 17