1 Kings 18:21

New English Translation

Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long are you going to be paralyzed by indecision? If the Lord is the true God, then follow him, but if Baal is, follow him!” But the people did not say a word.

Cross References

Genesis 24:50

Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “This is the Lord’s doing. Our wishes are of no concern.

Genesis 44:16

Judah replied, “What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has exposed the sin of your servants! We are now my lord’s slaves, we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.”

1 Kings 18:20

Ahab sent messengers to all the Israelites and had the prophets assemble at Mount Carmel.

1 Kings 18:39

When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “The Lord is the true God! The Lord is the true God!”

2 Kings 17:41

These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

1 Chronicles 17:26

Now, O Lord, you are the true God; you have made this good promise to your servant.

2 Chronicles 33:13

When he prayed to the Lord, the Lord responded to him and answered favorably his cry for mercy. The Lord brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh realized that the Lord is the true God.

Psalm 100:3

Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Hosea 10:2

Their heart is slipping; soon they will be punished for their guilt. The Lord will break their altars; he will completely destroy their fertility pillars.

Zephaniah 1:5

I will remove those who worship the stars in the sky from their rooftops, those who swear allegiance to the Lord while taking oaths in the name of their ‘king,’

Matthew 22:12

And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But he had nothing to say.

Matthew 22:34

Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together.

Matthew 22:36

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

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Luke 6:13

When morning came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

Deuteronomy 4:35

You have been taught that the Lord alone is God – there is no other besides him.

Joshua 24:15

If you have no desire to worship the Lord, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the Lord!”

1 Samuel 7:3

Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”