Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offsp
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man
“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.
The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealt
This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and
Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filli
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinner
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the
“May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beas
But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be