Acts 17:25-28

25People make things to give to God. But God does not need anything like that. It is God himself who causes everyone to live. He gives them everything that they need.

26God first made one man. From that one man he made all the different groups of people. He caused them to live in different places all over the world. He decided where each group of people should live. He also decided how long they should live in each place.

27God did all this so that people would want to know him. They would look carefully for him and perhaps they would find him. Really, God is near to each of us.

28Someone said this: “Because God gives us life, we are alive. Because of him, we can move about. Because of him we can be who we are.” One of your writers has also said, “We too are God's children.”