Acts 14:15

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Acts 14:15

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Summary

And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:

Sirs

Acts 7:26

Acts 16:30

Acts 27:10

We also

John 7:18

Of like

James 5:17

Revelation 19:10

And preach

Acts 17:16

Acts 26:17

From

General references

Acts 7:50

Bible References

Sirs

On the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting together, and he tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren, why do you injure one another?’

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

and said to them, “Men, I perceive that the voyage will certainly be with damage and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”

We also

But when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?

The people kept crying out, “The voice of a god and not of a man!”

Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, “

It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”

However, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the

latter days. This was your dream and the visions in your mind while on your bed.

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

Of like

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

Then I fell at his feet to worship him. But he *said to me, “Do not do that; I am a fellow servant of yours and your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus; worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

And preach

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols.

rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

From

‘They have made Me jealous with what is not God;
They have provoked Me to anger with their

idols.

So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;

I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,

You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile.

for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their idols.

I hate those who regard vain idols,
But I trust in the Lord.

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

“Gather yourselves and come;
Draw near together, you fugitives of the nations;

They have no knowledge,

Who carry about their wooden idol
And pray to a god who cannot save.

“They lift it upon the shoulder and carry it;
They set it in its place and it stands there.

It does not move from its place.

Though one may cry to it, it cannot answer;
It cannot deliver him from his distress.

Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”
“Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign

idols?”

For the customs of the peoples are

delusion;

Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

Are there any among the

idols of the nations who give rain?

Or can the heavens grant showers?
Is it not You, O Lord our God?
Therefore we

hope in You,

For You are the one who has done all these things.

Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of Judah and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they rejected the law of the Lord
And have not kept His statutes;
Their

lies also have led them astray,

Those after which their fathers walked.

“Those who regard vain idols
Forsake their faithfulness,

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.

So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

General references

‘Was it not My hand which made all these things?’