24 the God who made the world and all the things in it. This one, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, 25 nor is he served by human hands as if he[a] needed anything, because[b] he himself gives to everyone life and breath and everything. 26 And he made from one man every nation of humanity to live on all the face of the earth, determining their fixed times and the fixed boundaries of their habitation, 27 to search for God, if perhaps indeed they might feel around for him and find him.[c] And indeed he is not far away from each one of us,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:25 Here “as if” is supplied as a component of the conditional adverbial participle (“needed”)
  2. Acts 17:25 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“gives”) which is understood as causal
  3. Acts 17:27 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation