Acts 14:15 Cross References - Living_Oracles

¹⁵ and saying, Men, why do you these things? We are your fellow-mortals, and are declaring the glad tidings to you, that you may turn from these vanities to the living God; who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all living things which are in them:

¹⁶ Simon Peter answering, said, You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.

²⁶ For, as the Father has life in himself, so has he given to the Son, to have life in himself;

¹⁸ Whosoever teaches what proceeds from himself, seeks to promote his own glory: whosoever seeks to promote the glory of him who sent him, deserves credit, and is a stranger to deceit.

¹² And Peter, seeing this, answered the people, Israelites, why do you wonder at this? or why do you fix your eyes on us, as if by our own power, or piety, we had made this man to walk? ¹³ The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus, whom you delivered up, and rejected in the presence of Pilate, when he was desirous to release him:

²⁴ And when they heard it, they lifted up their voice with one accord to God, and said, Lord, thou art the God who didst make heaven and earth; and the sea, and all things that are in them:

²⁶ And the next day he showed himself to them, as they were quarreling, and would have persuaded them to peace, saying, Men, you are brethren; why do you injure one another?

²⁶ But Peter raised him up, saying, Arise; I also am a man.

²² And the people cried out, It is the voice of a God, and not of a man! ²³ But immediately a messenger of the Lord smote him, because he did not give glory to God: and being eaten with worms, he expired.

³² And we bring you good tidings, that the very promise which was made to the fathers,

⁷ and there they declared the glad tidings.

²¹ And having declared the gospel to that city, and made a considerable number of disciples; they returned to Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antioch,

³⁰ and, bringing them out, he said, O Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

¹⁶ Now, while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit within him was strongly moved when he beheld the city enslaved to idolatry. ¹⁷ He therefore reasoned with the Jews and proselytes in the synagogue; and in the forum, daily, with those who met with him. ¹⁸ Then some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers opposed him. Others said, What would this babbler say? And others, he seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities; because he declared to them the good news concerning Jesus and the resurrection.

²⁴ The God who made the world, and all things that are in it, being the Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands: ²⁵ Neither is he served by human hands, as if he stood in need of anything; he himself giving to all, life, and breath, and all things. ²⁶ And he has made of one blood, the whole race of men, to inhabit all the face of the earth; having marked out the times previously arranged in order, and the boundaries of their habitations: ²⁷ that they might seek after the Lord, if possibly they might feel after him, and find him; though he be not far from every one of us: ²⁸ for in him we live, and are moved, and do exist; as some of your own poets have said-"For we his offspring are." ²⁹ We, therefore, being the offspring of God, ought not to imagine the Deity to be like gold, or silver, or stone, wrought by the art and contrivance of man. ³⁰ For though God overlooked the times of ignorance, he now makes proclamation to all men, everywhere, to reform;

¹⁷ delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles; to whom I now send you- ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; that they may receive forgiveness of sons, and an inheritance amongst the sanctified, through faith in me. ¹⁹ From that time, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision: ²⁰ but declared, first to them at Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judea; and then to the Gentiles, that they should reform, and return to God, performing deeds worthy of reformation.

¹⁰ saying to them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be attended with injury and great damage, not only to the lading and to the ship, but also to our lives.

²¹ And when there was great want of food, then Paul, standing in the midst of them, said, Sirs, you ought to have hearkened to me, and not to have loosed from Crete, and incurred this injury and loss.

²⁵ Wherefore, take courage, men; for I trust in God that it shall be so, even as it was told me.

²⁰ (for his invisible attributes, even his eternal power and divinity, since the creation of the world, are very evident; being known by his works:) so that they are inexcusable. ²¹ Because, though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, neither gave him thanks; but became foolish by their own reasonings, and their inconsiderate heart was darkened. ²² Professing to be wise men, they became fools: ²³ for they changed the glory of the immortal God into the likeness of an image of mortal man, of fowls, or four-footed beasts, and of reptiles.

⁴ Concerning, then, the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world; and that there is no other God but one.

¹⁷ This, therefore, I say, and testify in the Lord, that you walk no longer as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind;

⁹ For they themselves publish concerning us, what sort of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God;

¹⁵ But if I tarry long, that you may know you ought to behave yourselves in the house of God, which is the congregation of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.-

¹² Brethren, take heed, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, by departing from the living God.

¹⁷ Elias was a man frail and mortal like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

⁷ saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgments is come: and worship him who made heaven, and earth, and sea, and the fountains of water.

¹⁰ And I fell before his feet to worship him; and he said to me, See you do it not: I am a fellow-servant with you, and with your brethren who keep the testimony of Jesus. Worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

¹⁹ And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to make war with him who sits upon the white horse, and with his army.

⁹ And he said to me, See you do it not: I am a fellow-servant with you, and of your brethren, the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book: worship God.