²⁸ for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

³ who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

¹⁷ and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.

²⁵ Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live;

²⁶ For as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have life in himself:

⁹ For with thee is the fountain of life: In thy light shall we see light.

⁹ Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

³⁸ Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

²³ but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.

⁹ Who holdeth our soul in life, And suffereth not our feet to be moved.

²⁹ And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.