Acts 14:15

Modern English Version

“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,

Cross References

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 41:16

Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me. God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”

1 Kings 16:13

because of all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned and by which they made Israel to sin in provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

1 Kings 16:26

for he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

2 Kings 19:16

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

2 Kings 19:4

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to taunt the living God and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard, and you might lift up a prayer for the remnant that are left.”

Psalm 115:15

May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Psalm 124:8

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

Psalm 31:6

I have hated those who regard worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.

Psalm 33:6

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of His mouth.

Exodus 20:11

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who has established it, who did not create it in vain, who formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you fugitives of the nations. They have no knowledge who set up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

Isaiah 46:7

They lift it on the shoulder, they carry it, and they set it in its place, and it stands; from its place it does not move. If one shall cry to it, it cannot answer nor save him out of his trouble.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether unthinking and foolish; the wooden idol is worthless instruction.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O  Lord our God? Therefore, we will wait upon You, for You have done all these things.

Jeremiah 32:17

Ah Lord God! Truly, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm, and there is nothing too hard for You.

Jeremiah 51:15

He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heaven by His understanding.

Jeremiah 8:19

Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people from a far country: “Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not her king in her?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities?”

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.

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept His commandments. The lies which their fathers followed have led them astray.

Jonah 2:8

“Those who follow vain idols forsake their true loyalty.

Zechariah 12:1

The oracle of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, the One who stretches out the heavens and establishes the earth and forms the spirit of man within him:

Matthew 16:16

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

John 5:26

For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has given to the Son to have life in Himself,

John 7:18

He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory. But He who seeks the glory of Him who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.

Acts 10:26

But Peter lifted him up, saying, “Stand up. I myself am a man.”

Acts 13:32

“We preach to you good news: The promise which was made to the fathers,

Acts 14:21

When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,

Acts 14:7

And there they preached the gospel.

Acts 16:30

He then led them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Acts 27:10

saying, “Men, I perceive that this voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and ship, but also of our lives.”

Acts 27:21

After they had long abstained from food, Paul stood in their midst and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete, incurring this injury and loss.

Acts 27:25

Therefore, men, take courage, for I believe God that it will be exactly as it was told to me.

Acts 4:24

When they heard this, they lifted their voices in unity to God and prayed, “Lord, You are God, who has made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,

Acts 7:26

On the next day he appeared to them as they fought and tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’

1 Corinthians 8:4

So concerning the eating of foods that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

Ephesians 4:17

Therefore this I say and testify in the Lord, that from now on you walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds,

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have made Me jealous with that which is not God; they have provoked Me to anger with their empty things. And I will make them jealous of those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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 1:9

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,

1 Timothy 3:15

but if I am delayed, you might know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Hebrews 3:12

Be attentive, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, and you depart from the living God.

James 5:17

Elijah was a man subject to natural passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

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.

Revelation 14:7

He said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, for the hour of His judgment has come. Worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

Revelation 19:10

I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “See that you not do that. I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For it is the spirit of prophecy that bears witness to Jesus.”

Revelation 19:19

Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to wage war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.

Revelation 22:9

But he said to me, “See that you not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”

Revelation 4:11

“You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You have created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created.”

1 Samuel 12:21

But do not turn aside, for then you would be going after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing.

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.”