Acts 14:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁵ ‘People! Why are you doing these things? We are people also, just like you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you turn from these worthless things  to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.  ,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Men, why are you doing this? We also are [only] human beings, of nature like your own, and we bring you the good news (Gospel) that you should turn away from these foolish and vain things to the living God, Who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything that they contain. [Exod. 20:11; Ps. 146:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:

Common English Bible

¹⁵ “People, what are you doing? We are humans too, just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you: turn to the living God and away from such worthless things. He “made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ In previous generations, he permitted all nations to walk in their own ways.

Acts 14:15 Cross References

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning  God created the heavens and the earth.  ,

Genesis 41:16

‘I am not able to,’  Joseph answered Pharaoh. ‘It is God who will give Pharaoh a favourable answer.’  ,

1 Kings 16:13

This happened because of all the sins of Baasha and those of his son Elah, which they committed and caused Israel to commit, angering the Lord God of Israel  with their worthless idols.

1 Kings 16:26

He walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat in every respect and continued in his sins that he caused Israel to commit, angering the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols.

2 Kings 19:16

Listen closely, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see.  Hear the words that Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God.

2 Kings 19:4

Perhaps the Lord your God  will hear  all the words of the royal spokesman, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke  him for the words that the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the surviving remnant.” ’

Exodus 20:11

For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.

Isaiah 45:18

For this is what the  Lord  says – the Creator of the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, the one who established it (he did not create it to be a wasteland, but formed it to be inhabited)   – he says, ‘I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:20

‘Come, gather together, and approach, you fugitives of the nations. Those who carry their wooden idols and pray to a god who cannot save have no knowledge.

Isaiah 46:7

They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands; it does not budge from its place. They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer; it saves no one from his trouble.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any of the worthless idols of the nations  bring rain? Or can the skies alone give showers? Are you not the  Lord our God? We therefore put our hope in you, for you have done all these things.

Jeremiah 32:17

Oh, Lord God! You yourself made the heavens and earth  by your great power  and with your outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for you!

Jeremiah 51:15

He made the earth by his power, established the world  by his wisdom, and spread out the heavens by his understanding.

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen #– #the cry of my dear people from a faraway land, ‘Is the Lord no longer in Zion, her King not within her? ’ Why have they angered me with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?

Daniel 6:26

I issue a decree  that in all my royal dominion, people must tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For he is the living God, and he endures for ever; his kingdom will never be destroyed, and his dominion has no end.

Amos 2:4

The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Judah for three crimes, even four, because they have rejected the instruction of the  Lord and have not kept his statutes. The lies  that their ancestors followed have led them astray.

Jonah 2:8

Those who cherish worthless idols abandon their faithful love,

Zechariah 12:1

A pronouncement: The word of the Lord concerning Israel. A declaration of the  Lord, who stretched out the heavens, laid the foundation of the earth, and formed the spirit of man within him.

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.’

John 5:26

For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted to the Son   to have life in himself.

John 7:18

The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory;   but he who seeks the glory   of the one who sent him is true,   and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Acts 10:26

But Peter lifted him up and said, ‘Stand up. I myself am also a man.’

Acts 13:32

And we ourselves proclaim to you the good news of the promise that was made to our ancestors.

Acts 14:21

After they had preached the gospel in that town and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch,

Acts 14:7

There they continued preaching the gospel.

Acts 16:30

He escorted them out and said, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved? ’

Acts 27:10

and told them, ‘Men, I can see that this voyage is headed towards disaster and heavy loss, not only of the cargo and the ship but also of our lives.’

Acts 27:21

Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul then stood up among them and said, ‘You men should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete and sustain this damage and loss.

Acts 27:25

So take courage, men, because I believe God that it will be just the way it was told to me.

Acts 4:24

When they heard this, they raised their voices together to God and said, ‘Master, you are the one who made the heaven, the earth, and the sea, and everything in them.

Acts 7:26

The next day he appeared while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, “Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other? ”

1 Corinthians 8:4

About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’,  and that ‘there is no God but one’.

Ephesians 4:17

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have provoked my jealousy with what is not a god; they have enraged me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with what is not a people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.

Deuteronomy 5:26

For who out of all humanity has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the fire, as we have, and lived?

1 Thessalonians 1:9

for they themselves report  what kind of reception  we had from you: how you turned  to God from idols  to serve the living  and true  God

1 Timothy 3:15

But if I should be delayed, I have written so that you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household,  which is the church of the living God,  the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Hebrews 3:12

Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away  from the living God.

James 5:17

Elijah was a human being as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.

Joshua 3:10

He said, ‘You will know that the living God is among you  and that he will certainly dispossess before you the Canaanites, Hethites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites

Revelation 14:7

He spoke with a loud voice:  ‘Fear God  and give him glory,  because the hour of his judgement has come.  Worship the one who made heaven and earth,  the sea and the springs of water.’

Revelation 19:10

Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, ‘Don’t do that!  I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters who hold firmly to the testimony of Jesus.  Worship God, because the testimony of Jesus is the spirit  of prophecy.’

Revelation 19:19

Then I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies  gathered together to wage war  against the rider on the horse and against his army.

Revelation 22:9

But he said to me, ‘Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you, your brothers the prophets, and those who keep the words of this book. Worship God! ’

Revelation 4:11

Our Lord and God, you are worthy  to receive glory and honour and power, because you have created all things, and by your will

1 Samuel 12:21

Don’t turn away to follow worthless  things that can’t profit or rescue you; they are worthless.

1 Samuel 17:26

David spoke to the men who were standing with him: ‘What will be done for the man who kills that Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel?  Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine  that he should defy the armies  of the living God? ’

1 Samuel 17:36

Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.’