1 Thessalonians 1:9

Catholic Public Domain Version

For others are reporting among us of the kind of acceptance we had among you, and how you were converted from idols to God, to the service of the living and true God,

Cross References

Psalm 42:2

For you are God, my strength. Why have you rejected me? And why do I walk in sadness, while the adversary afflicts me?

Psalm 84:2

O Lord, you have blessed your land. You have turned aside the captivity of Jacob.

Isaiah 37:17

O Lord, incline your ear and listen. O Lord, open your eyes and see. And hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to blaspheme the living God.

Isaiah 37:4

Perhaps, somehow, the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of the Assyrians, his lord, has sent to blaspheme the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, lift up your prayers on behalf of the remnant which has been left behind."

Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord is the true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. Before his indignation, the earth will shake. And the Gentiles will not be able to withstand his threats.

Jeremiah 16:19

"O Lord, my strength, and my health, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: the Gentiles will approach you from the ends of the earth, and they will say: 'Truly, our fathers possessed a lie, an emptiness that has not benefited them.'

Daniel 6:26

It is hereby established by my decree that, in all my empire and my kingdom, they shall begin to tremble and fear the God of Daniel. For he is the living and eternal God forever, and his kingdom will not be destroyed, and his power will last forever.

Hosea 1:10

And the number of the sons of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which is without measure and cannot be numbered. And in the place where it will be said to them, 'You are not my people,' this will happen: it will be said to them, 'You are the sons of the living God.'

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will be a horror over them, and he will reduce all the gods of the earth. And they will adore him, each man from his own place, all the islands of the Gentiles.

Malachi 1:11

For, from the rising of the sun even to its setting, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place, a clean oblation is being sacrificed and offered to my name. For my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter responded by saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

Acts 14:15

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

Romans 9:26

And this shall be: in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they shall be called the sons of the living God."

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were Gentiles, you approached mute idols, doing what you were led to do.

Deuteronomy 5:26

What is all flesh, that it would hear the voice of the living God, who speaks from the midst of fire, just as we have heard it, and be able to live?

1 Thessalonians 2:1

For you yourselves know, brothers, that our acceptance among you was not empty.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

For this reason also, we give thanks to God without ceasing: because, when you had accepted from us the Word of the hearing of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but (as it truly is) as the Word of God, who is working in you who have believed.

1 Timothy 4:10

For this reason we labor and are maligned: because we hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, most especially of the faithful.

Hebrews 12:22

But you have drawn near to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of Angels,

Joshua 3:10

And again, he said: "By this shall you know that the Lord, the living God, is in your midst, and that he shall scatter in your sight, the Canaanite and the Hittite, the Hivite and the Perizzite, likewise the Girgashite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite.

1 John 5:21

Little sons, keep yourselves from false worship. Amen.

Revelation 17:2

With her, the kings of the earth have fornicated. And those who inhabit the earth have been inebriated by the wine of her prostitution."

1 Samuel 17:26

And David spoke to the men who were standing with him, saying: "What will be given to the man who will have struck down this Philistine, and who will have taken away the disgrace from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should reproach the soldiers of the living God?"

1 Samuel 17:36

For I, your servant, have killed both lion and bear. And so this uncircumcised Philistine, too, will be like one of them. Now I will go and take away the reproach of the people. For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, who has dared to curse the army of the living God?"