1 Thessalonians 1:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For they themselves report concerning us what a welcome we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

Cross References

Psalm 42:2

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?

Psalm 84:2

My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Isaiah 37:17

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

Isaiah 37:4

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

Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited naught but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

Daniel 6:26

I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring for ever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Sons of the living God.”

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will be terrible against them; yea, he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.

Malachi 1:11

For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 16:16

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

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing this? We also are men, of like nature with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

Romans 9:26

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’ ”

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were heathen, you were led astray to dumb idols, however you may have been moved.

Deuteronomy 5:26

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

1 Thessalonians 2:1

For you yourselves know, brethren, that our visit to you was not in vain;

1 Thessalonians 2:13

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

1 Timothy 4:10

For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,

Joshua 3:10

And Joshua said, “Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

1 John 5:21

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Revelation 17:2

with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and with the wine of whose fornication the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”

1 Samuel 17:26

And 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, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.”