1 Thessalonians 1:9

James Moffatt - New Testament

People tell us of their own accord about the visit we paid to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and a real God

Cross References

1 Timothy 4:10

that "we toil and strive because our hope is fixed upon the living God, the Saviour of all men" — of believers in particular.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know when you were pagans, how your impulses led you to dumb idols;

1 Thessalonians 2:13

We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

1 Thessalonians 2:1

But you remember yourselves, brothers, that our visit to you was no failure.

Acts 14:15

shouting, "Men, what is this you are doing? We are but human, with natures like your own! The gospel we are preaching to you is to turn from such futile ways to the living God who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that in them is.

Revelation 17:2

with whom the kings of earth have committed vice, and the dwellers on earth have been drunk with the wine of her vice."

Hebrews 12:22

You have come to mount Sion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering,

Romans 9:26

on the very spot where they were told, 'You are no people of mine,' there shall they be called 'sons of the living God.'

Matthew 16:16

So Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

1 John 5:21

My dear children, keep clear of idols.