Acts 14:15

God's Word

and said, “Men, what are you doing? We’re human beings like you. We’re spreading the Good News to you to turn you away from these worthless gods to the living God. The living God made the sky, the land, the sea, and everything in them.

Cross References

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created heaven and earth.

Genesis 41:16

Joseph answered Pharaoh, “I can’t, but God can give Pharaoh the answer that he needs.”

1 Kings 16:13

This was for all the sins committed by Baasha and his son Elah. They sinned, led Israel to sin, and made the Lord God of Israel furious because of their worthless idols.

1 Kings 16:26

He lived exactly like Jeroboam (Nebat’s son). He sinned and led Israel to sin with worthless idols, and the Israelites made the Lord God of Israel furious.

2 Kings 19:16

Turn your ear toward me, Lord, and listen. Open your eyes, Lord, and see. Listen to the message that Sennacherib sent to defy the living God.

2 Kings 19:4

The Lord your God may have heard all the words of the field commander. His master, the king of Assyria, sent him to defy the living God. The Lord your God may punish him because of the message that the Lord your God heard. Pray for the few people who are left.”

Psalm 115:15

You will be blessed by the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

Psalm 124:8

Our help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

Psalm 31:6

I hate those who cling to false gods, but I trust the Lord.

Psalm 33:6

The heavens were made by the Lord’s word and all the stars by the breath of his mouth.

Exodus 20:11

In six days the Lord made heaven, earth, and the sea, along with everything in them. He didn’t work on the seventh day. That’s why the Lord blessed the day he stopped his work and set this day apart as holy.

Isaiah 45:18

The Lord created the heavens. God formed the earth and made it. He set it up. He did not create it to be empty but formed it to be inhabited. This is what the Lord says: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:20

Come here, you refugees from the nations. Ignorant people carry wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save ⌞anyone⌟.

Isaiah 46:7

They lift it on their shoulders and carry it. They set the idol in its place, and it stands there. It doesn’t move from its place. If they cry to it for help, it can’t answer. It can’t rescue them from their distress.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are complete idiots. They learn nonsense from wooden idols.

Jeremiah 14:22

The worthless gods of the nations can’t make it rain. By themselves, the skies can’t give showers. But you can, O Lord our God. We have hope in you because you do all these things.

Jeremiah 32:17

‘Almighty Lord, you made heaven and earth by your great strength and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you.

Jeremiah 51:15

The Lord made the earth by his power. He set up the world by his wisdom. He stretched out heaven by his understanding.

Jeremiah 8:19

The cry from my dear people comes from a distant land: “Isn’t the Lord in Zion? Isn’t Zion’s king still there?” They make me furious with their idols, with their foreign gods.

Daniel 6:26

I decree that in every part of my kingdom people should tremble with terror in front of Daniel’s God, the living God who continues forever. His kingdom will never be destroyed. His power lasts to the end ⌞of time⌟.

Amos 2:4

This is what the Lord says: Because Judah has committed three crimes, and now a fourth crime, I will not change my plans. The people of Judah have rejected the Lord’s Teachings and haven’t kept his laws. They have been led astray by false teachings, the same ones their ancestors followed.

Jonah 2:8

Those who hold on to worthless idols abandon their loyalty ⌞to you⌟.

Zechariah 12:1

This is the prophetic revelation, the Lord’s word about Israel. The Lord—who spread out the heavens, laid the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit in a person—says,

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God!”

John 5:26

The Father is the source of life, and he has enabled the Son to be the source of life too.

John 7:18

Those who speak their own thoughts are looking for their own glory. But the man who wants to bring glory to the one who sent him is a true teacher and doesn’t have dishonest motives.

Acts 10:26

But Peter made him get up. He told him, “Stand up! I’m only a man.”

Acts 13:32

We are telling you the Good News: What God promised our ancestors has happened.

Acts 14:21

They spread the Good News in that city and won many disciples. Then they went back to the cities of Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch (which is in Pisidia).

Acts 14:7

They spread the Good News there.

Acts 16:30

Then he took Paul and Silas outside and asked, “Sirs, what do I have to do to be saved?”

Acts 27:10

“Men, we’re going to face a disaster and heavy losses on this voyage. This disaster will cause damage to the cargo and the ship, and it will affect our lives.”

Acts 27:21

Since hardly anyone wanted to eat, Paul stood among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete. You would have avoided this disaster and loss.

Acts 27:25

So have courage, men! I trust God that everything will turn out as he told me.

Acts 4:24

When they heard this, they were united and loudly prayed to God, “Master, you made the sky, the land, the sea, and everything in them.

Acts 7:26

The next day Moses saw two Israelites fighting, and he tried to make peace between them. He said to them, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you treating each other unfairly?’

1 Corinthians 8:4

Now about eating food that was offered to false gods: We know that the false gods in this world don’t really exist and that no god exists except the one God.

Ephesians 4:17

So I tell you and encourage you in the Lord’s name not to live any longer like other people in the world. Their minds are set on worthless things.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. So I will use those who are not my people to make them jealous and a nation of godless fools to make them angry.

Deuteronomy 5:26

Who has ever heard the voice of the living God speak from a fire, as we did, and lived?

1 Thessalonians 1:9

They talk about how you welcomed us when we arrived. They even report how you turned away from false gods to serve the real, living God

1 Timothy 3:15

in case I’m delayed. I want you to know how people who are members of God’s family must live. God’s family is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Hebrews 3:12

Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you ever develop a wicked, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

James 5:17

Elijah was human like us. Yet, when he prayed that it wouldn’t rain, no rain fell on the ground for three-and-a-half years.

Joshua 3:10

Joshua continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that he will certainly force the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites out of your way.

Revelation 14:7

The angel said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the time has come for him to judge. Worship the one who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs.”

Revelation 19:10

I bowed at his feet to worship him. But he told me, “Don’t do that! I am your coworker and a coworker of the Christians who hold on to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, because the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy!”

Revelation 19:19

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

Revelation 22:9

He told me, “Don’t do that! I am your coworker. I work with other Christians, the prophets, and those who follow the words in this book. Worship God!”

Revelation 4:11

“Our Lord and God, you deserve to receive glory, honor, and power because you created everything. Everything came into existence and was created because of your will.”

1 Samuel 12:21

Don’t turn away to follow other gods. They can’t help or rescue you, because they don’t exist.

1 Samuel 17:26

David asked the men who were standing near him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and gets rid of Israel’s disgrace? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should challenge the army of the living God?”

1 Samuel 17:36

I have killed lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them because he has challenged the army of the living God.”