Acts 14:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“People, why are you doing this? We are mortals just like you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

Cross References

Genesis 1:1

When God began to create the heavens and the earth,

Genesis 41:16

Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It is not I; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”

1 Kings 16:13

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

1 Kings 16:26

For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in the sins that he caused Israel to commit, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.

2 Kings 19:16

Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.

2 Kings 19:4

It may be that the Lord your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is 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

You hate those who pay regard to 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, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it.

Isaiah 45:18

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it a chaos; he formed it to be inhabited!): I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come together; draw near, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge— those who carry about their wooden idols and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.

Isaiah 46:7

They lift it to their shoulders; they carry it; they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries out to it, it does not answer or save anyone from trouble.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood!

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any idols of the nations bring rain, or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for it is you who do all this.

Jeremiah 32:17

“Ah Lord God! It is you who made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

Jeremiah 51:15

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from far and wide in the land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” (“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their foreign idols?”)

Daniel 6:26

I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people shall tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: For he is the living God, enduring forever. His kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion has no end.

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 instruction of the Lord and have not kept his statutes, but they have been led astray by the same lies after which their ancestors walked.

Jonah 2:8

Those who worship vain idols forsake their true loyalty.

Zechariah 12:1

An Oracle. The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within:

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

John 5:26

For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself,

John 7:18

Those who speak on their own seek their own glory, but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is nothing unjust in him.

Acts 10:26

But Peter made him get up, saying, “Stand up; I am only a mortal.”

Acts 13:32

And we bring you the good news that what God promised to our ancestors

Acts 14:21

After they had proclaimed the good news to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, then on to Iconium and Antioch.

Acts 14:7

and there they continued proclaiming the good news.

Acts 16:30

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

Acts 27:10

saying, “Men, I can see that the voyage will be with danger and much heavy loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”

Acts 27:21

Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul then stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and thereby avoided this damage and loss.

Acts 27:25

So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told.

Acts 4:24

When they heard it, they raised their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth, the sea, and everything in them,

Acts 7:26

The next day he came to some of them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong each other?’

1 Corinthians 8:4

Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists” and that “there is no God but one.”

Ephesians 4:17

Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer walk as the gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds;

Deuteronomy 32:21

They made me jealous with what is no god, provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with what is no people, provoke them with a foolish nation.

Deuteronomy 5:26

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

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they report about us what kind of welcome we had among you and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God

1 Timothy 3:15

if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

Hebrews 3:12

Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

James 5:17

Elijah was a human like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.

Joshua 3:10

Joshua said, “By this you shall know that among you is the living God who without fail will drive out from 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 the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

Revelation 19:10

Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

Revelation 19:19

Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to wage war against the rider on the horse and against his army.

Revelation 22:9

but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters the prophets and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”

Revelation 4:11

“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

1 Samuel 12:21

and do not turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or save, for they are useless.

1 Samuel 17:26

David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the 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 has killed both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”