1 Thessalonians 1:9

Modern English Version

For they themselves declare how we were received by you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

Cross References

Psalm 42:2

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Psalm 84:2

My soul longs and even yearns for the courtyards of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Isaiah 37:17

Incline Your ear, O  Lord, and hear. Open Your eyes, O  Lord, and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

Isaiah 37:4

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.”

Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and an everlasting King. At His wrath the earth trembles, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

Jeremiah 16:19

O  Lord, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to You from the remote parts of the earth, and will say: Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.

Daniel 6:26

“I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel. “For He is the living God, enduring forever; His kingdom shall never be destroyed, and His dominion shall be forever.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the Israelites will be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not My people,” there it will be said to them, “You are the sons of the living God.”

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will be dreadful to them, for He will weaken all the gods of the earth; men will worship Him, each from his place, all the lands of the nations.

Malachi 1:11

For from the rising of the sun to its setting, My name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to My name, and a pure offering, for My name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of Hosts.

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing this? We also are men, of like nature with you, preaching to you to turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything that is in them,

Romans 9:26

and, “In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there they shall be called ‘sons of the living God.’ ”

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to mute idols, however you were led.

Deuteronomy 5:26

For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

1 Thessalonians 2:1

You yourselves know, brothers, that our visit to you was not in vain.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

For this reason we thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which effectively works also in you who believe.

1 Timothy 4:10

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels;

Joshua 3:10

And Joshua said, “By this you will know that the living God is among you, and that He will thoroughly drive out the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites from before you.

1 John 5:21

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

Revelation 17:2

with whom the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.”

1 Samuel 17:26

David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, “What will be done for the man that kills this Philistine and takes away this reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

1 Samuel 17:36

Your servant slew both the lion and the bear. And this uncircumcised Philistine will be as one of them, because he has reviled the armies of the living God.”