Acts 14:15

The Passion Translation

“People, what are you doing? We’re only weak human beings like everyone else. This is why we’ve come to tell you the good news, so that you would turn away from these worthless myths and turn to the living God. He is the Creator of all things: the earth, the heavens, the sea, and everything they contain.

Cross References

Genesis 1:1

When God created the heavens and the earth,

Genesis 41:16

“I cannot do it alone,” Joseph replied, “but God will help me to give Pharaoh the proper interpretation for Pharaoh’s welfare.”

Psalm 124:8

For the same God who made everything, our Creator and our mighty maker, he himself is our helper and defender!

Psalm 31:6

I despise these deceptive illusions, all this pretense and nonsense, for I worship only you.

Psalm 33:6

All he had to do was speak by his Spirit-Wind command, and God created the heavenlies. Filled with galaxies and stars, the vast cosmos he wonderfully made.

Isaiah 45:18

This is what Yahweh says, heaven’s Creator, who alone is God. He created the earth, shaped it, and established it all by himself. He made it fit and orderly and beautiful for its inhabitants. He says: “I am Yahweh, and there is no other god.

Isaiah 45:20

“Come together! Assemble yourselves! Draw near, you refugees from among the nations. Those who parade their powerless wooden idols have no revelation-knowledge. They keep on praying to gods who cannot save them.

Isaiah 46:7

They lift it up to their shoulders and have to carry it. They set it on a stand, and there it sits, unable to move from its place. When someone cries out to it, it never answers nor saves anyone from trouble.

Jeremiah 10:8

What wisdom could they glean from a block of wood? They are foolish blockheads, one and all.

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any of the false gods of foreign nations give us rain? Can the skies by themselves give showers? Only you can, O  Yahweh, our God! So, we place all our hope in you, for only you accomplish all these things.

Jeremiah 32:17

“Lord Yahweh, you stretched out your mighty arm and created the heavens and the earth by your awesome power. Nothing is impossible with you!

Jeremiah 51:15

Yahweh made the earth by his glorious power and firmly established it by his great wisdom. His skill stretched out the sky.

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen! I hear my beloved people crying out in despair throughout the land: “Is Yahweh no longer in Zion? Is her King not dwelling within her?” “So why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and with their foreign, phony gods?”

Daniel 6:26

I hereby decree that throughout my royal dominion, all people everywhere will tremble in fear before the God whom Daniel worships. He is the living God, enduring forever. His kingdom will never be destroyed, and his dominion continues without end.

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter spoke up and said, “You are the Anointed One, the Son of the living God!”

John 5:26

For as the Father is the source of life, so he has given the Son the power to impart life.

John 7:18

Charlatans praise themselves and seek honor from men, but my Father sent me to speak truth on his behalf. And I have no false motive, because I seek only the glory of God.

Acts 10:26

But Peter pulled him to his feet and said, “Stand up, for I’m only a man and no different from you.”

Acts 13:32

“So here we are to share with you some wonderful news! The promise God made to our forefathers

Acts 14:21

After preaching the wonderful news of the gospel there and winning a large number of followers to Jesus, they retraced their steps and revisited Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch.

Acts 14:7

And they continued to preach the hope of the gospel.

Acts 16:30

Then he led Paul and Silas outside and asked, “What must I do to be saved?”

Acts 27:10

“Men, I can see that our voyage would be disastrous for us and bring great loss, not only to our ship and cargo but also to our own lives. We should remain here.”

Acts 27:21

After being without food for a long time, Paul stepped before them all and said, “Men, you should have obeyed me and avoided all of this pain and suffering by not leaving Crete.

Acts 27:25

So men, keep up your courage! I know that God will protect you, just as he told me he would.

Acts 4:24

When the believers heard their report, they raised their voices in unity and prayed, “Lord Yahweh, you are the Lord of all! You created the universe—the earth, the sky, the sea, and everything that is in them.

Acts 7:26

The next day he came upon two of our people engaged in a fist fight, and he tried to break it up by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers! Why would you want to hurt each other?’

1 Corinthians 8:4

Concerning food sacrificed as offerings to idols, we all know that an idol is nothing, for there is no God but one.

Ephesians 4:17

So with the wisdom given to me from the Lord I say: You should not live like the unbelievers around you who walk in their empty delusions.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

for everyone tells the story of the kind of welcome you showed us when we first came to you. And everyone knows how wonderfully you turned to God from idols to serve the true and living God.

1 Timothy 3:15

But if I’m delayed in coming, you’ll already have these instructions on how to conduct the affairs of the church of the living God, his very household and the supporting pillar and firm foundation of the truth.

Hebrews 3:12

So search your hearts every day, my brothers and sisters, and make sure that none of you has evil or unbelief hiding within you. For it will lead you astray, and make you unresponsive to the living God.

James 5:17

Elijah was a man with human frailties, just like all of us, but he prayed and received supernatural answers. He actually shut the heavens over the land so there would be no rain for three and a half years!

Joshua 3:10

This is how you will know for sure that the Living God is among you. As you advance into the land, he will drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

Revelation 14:7

With a loud voice he shouted, “You must reverence God and glorify him, for the time has come for him to judge. Worship at the feet of the Creator of heaven, earth, sea, and springs of water.”

Revelation 19:10

At this I fell facedown at the angel’s feet to worship him, but he stopped me and said, “Don’t do this! For I am only a fellow servant with you and one of your brothers who clings to what Jesus testifies. Worship God. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

Revelation 19:19

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

Revelation 22:9

But he said to me, “Don’t do it! I am but a fellow servant with you and your brothers, the prophets, and with those who cling to the words of this book. Worship God!”

Revelation 4:11

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