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,

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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