1 Kings 18:21

New American Bible - revised edition

Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you straddle the issue? If the Lord is God, follow him; if Baal, follow him.” But the people did not answer him.

Cross References

Genesis 24:50

Laban and Bethuel said in reply: “This thing comes from the Lord; we can say nothing to you either for or against it.

Genesis 44:16

Judah replied: “What can we say to my lord? How can we plead or how try to prove our innocence? God has uncovered your servants’ guilt. Here we are, then, the slaves of my lord—the rest of us no less than the one in whose possession the goblet was found.”

1 Kings 18:20

So Ahab summoned all the Israelites and had the prophets gather on Mount Carmel.

1 Kings 18:39

Seeing this, all the people fell prostrate and said, “The Lord is God! The Lord is God!”

2 Kings 17:41

But these nations were both venerating the Lord and serving their own idols. Their children and children’s children are still acting like their ancestors, to this very day.

1 Chronicles 17:26

Since you, Lord, are truly God and have made this generous promise to your servant,

2 Chronicles 33:13

and prayed to him. The Lord let himself be won over: he heard his prayer and restored him to his kingdom in Jerusalem. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord is indeed God.

Psalm 100:3

Know that the Lord is God, he made us, we belong to him, we are his people, the flock he shepherds.

Psalm 119:113

I hate every hypocrite; your law I love.

Hosea 10:2

Their heart is false! Now they will pay for their guilt: God will break down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars.

Zephaniah 1:5

And those who bow down on the roofs to the host of heaven, And those who bow down to the Lord but swear by Milcom;

Matthew 22:12

He said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?’ But he was reduced to silence.

Matthew 22:34

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,

Matthew 22:36

“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Dependence on God.

Luke 6:13

When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named apostles:

Romans 3:19

Now we know that what the law says is addressed to those under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world stand accountable to God,

Deuteronomy 4:35

All this you were allowed to see that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other.

Joshua 24:15

If it is displeasing to you to serve the Lord, choose today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose country you are dwelling. As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

1 Samuel 7:3

Then Samuel addressed the whole house of Israel: “If you would return to the Lord with your whole heart, remove your foreign gods and your Astartes, fix your hearts on the Lord, and serve him alone, then the Lord will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”