Acts 14:15

New American Bible - revised edition

“Men, why are you doing this? We are of the same nature as you, human beings. We proclaim to you good news that you should turn from these idols to the living God, ‘who made heaven and earth and sea and all that is in them.’

Cross References

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth—

Genesis 41:16

“It is not I,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God who will respond for the well-being of Pharaoh.”

1 Kings 16:13

because of all the sins which Baasha and his son Elah committed and caused Israel to commit, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.

1 Kings 16:26

In every way he imitated the sinful conduct of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, and the sin he had caused Israel to commit, thus provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.

2 Kings 19:16

Incline your ear, Lord, and listen! Open your eyes, Lord, and see! Hear the words Sennacherib has sent to taunt the living God.

2 Kings 19:4

Perhaps the Lord, your God, will hear all the words of the commander, whom his lord, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God, and will rebuke him for the words which the Lord, your God, has heard. So lift up a prayer for the remnant that is here.”

Psalm 115:15

May you be blessed by the Lord, 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

Into your hands I commend my spirit; you will redeem me, Lord, God of truth.

Psalm 33:6

By the Lord’s word the heavens were made; by the breath of his mouth all their host.

Exodus 20:11

For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the Lord has blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the Lord, The creator of the heavens, who is God, The designer and maker of the earth who established it, Not as an empty waste did he create it, but designing it to be lived in: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:20

Come and assemble, gather together, you fugitives from among the nations! They are without knowledge who bear wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save.

Isaiah 46:7

They lift it to their shoulders to carry; when they set it down, it stays, and does not move from the place. They cry out to it, but it cannot answer; it delivers no one from distress.

Jeremiah 10:8

One and all they are stupid and senseless, the instruction from nonentities—only wood!

Jeremiah 14:22

Among the idols of the nations are there any that give rain? Or can the mere heavens send showers? Is it not you, Lord, our God, to whom we look? You alone do all these things.

Jeremiah 32:17

Ah, my Lord God! You made the heavens and the earth with your great power and your outstretched arm; nothing is too difficult for you.

Jeremiah 51:15

He made the earth by his power, established the world by wisdom, and by his skill stretched out the heavens.

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen! the cry of the daughter of my people, far and wide in the land! “Is the Lord no longer in Zion, is her King no longer in her midst?” Why do they provoke me with their idols, with their foreign nonentities?

Daniel 6:26

Then King Darius wrote to the nations and peoples of every language, wherever they dwell on the earth: “May your peace abound!

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and now four— I will not take it back— Because they spurned the instruction of the Lord, and did not keep his statutes; Because the lies which their ancestors followed have led them astray,

Jonah 2:8

When I became faint, I remembered the Lord; My prayer came to you in your holy temple.

Zechariah 12:1

An oracle: The word of the Lord concerning Israel—oracle of the Lord, who spreads out the heavens, lays the foundations of the earth, and fashions the human spirit within:

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter said in reply, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

John 5:26

For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to his Son the possession of life in himself.

John 7:18

Whoever speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but whoever seeks the glory of the one who sent him is truthful, and there is no wrong in him.

Acts 10:26

Peter, however, raised him up, saying, “Get up. I myself am also a human being.”

Acts 13:32

We ourselves are proclaiming this good news to you that what God promised our ancestors

Acts 14:21

After they had proclaimed the good news to that city and made a considerable number of disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch.

Acts 14:7

where they continued to proclaim the good news. Paul and Barnabas at Lystra.

Acts 16:30

Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Acts 27:10

“Men, I can see that this voyage will result in severe damage and heavy loss not only to the cargo and the ship, but also to our lives.”

Acts 27:21

When many would no longer eat, Paul stood among them and said, “Men, you should have taken my advice and not have set sail from Crete and you would have avoided this disastrous loss.

Acts 27:25

Therefore, keep up your courage, men; I trust in God that it will turn out as I have been told.

Acts 4:24

And when they heard it, they raised their voices to God with one accord and said, “Sovereign Lord, maker of heaven and earth and the sea and all that is in them,

Acts 7:26

The next day he appeared to them as they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you harming one another?’

1 Corinthians 8:4

So about the eating of meat sacrificed to idols: we know that “there is no idol in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Ephesians 4:17

So I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;

Deuteronomy 32:21

Since they have incited me with a “no-god,” and provoked me with their empty idols, I will incite them with a “no-people”; with a foolish nation I will provoke them.

Deuteronomy 5:26

For what mortal has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of fire, as we have, and lived?

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves openly declare about us what sort of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

1 Timothy 3:15

But if I should be delayed, you should know how to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of truth.

Hebrews 3:12

Take care, brothers, that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God.

James 5:17

Elijah was a human being like us; yet he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain upon the land.

Joshua 3:10

He continued: “By this you will know that there is a living God in your midst: he will certainly dispossess before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

Revelation 14:7

He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, for his time has come to sit in judgment. Worship him who made heaven and earth and sea and springs of water.”

Revelation 19:10

I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “Don’t! I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brothers who bear witness to Jesus. Worship God. Witness to Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” The King of Kings.

Revelation 19:19

Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered to fight against the one riding the horse and against his army.

Revelation 22:9

But he said to me, “Don’t! I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brothers the prophets and of those who keep the message of this book. Worship God.”

Revelation 4:11

“Worthy are you, Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things; because of your will they came to be and were created.”

1 Samuel 12:21

Do not turn aside to gods who are nothing, who cannot act and deliver. They are nothing.

1 Samuel 17:26

David now said to the men standing near him: “How will the man who kills this Philistine and frees Israel from disgrace be rewarded? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should insult the armies of the living God?”

1 Samuel 17:36

Your servant has killed both a lion and a bear. This uncircumcised Philistine will be as one of them, because he has insulted the armies of the living God.”