1 Thessalonians 1:9

For when people speak of us, they tell what a welcome you gave us, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a true and living God,

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were heathen you would stray off, as impulse directed, to idols that could not speak.

and shouting, "Friends, why are you doing this? We are only human beings like you, and we bring you the good news that you should turn from these follies to a living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain.

1 Thessalonians 2:1

You know yourselves, brothers, that our visit to you was far from ineffectual.

Acts 26:17-18

I will save you from your people and from the heathen, to whom I will send you

Romans 9:26

And in the very place where they were told, 'You are no people of mine,' They shall be called sons of the living God."

2 Corinthians 6:16-17

What bargain can a temple of God make with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, And I will be their God and they will be my people."

Galatians 4:8-9

But formerly, in your ignorance of God, you were slaves to gods that really did not exist,

1 Thessalonians 1:5-6

for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction??ou know the kind of life we lived among you for your good.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

We for our part constantly thank God for another reason too??ecause when you received God's message from our lips, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which does its work in the hearts of you believers.

1 Timothy 4:10

It is for this that we toil and struggle, for we have fixed our hopes on the living God, the Savior of all men, especially those who believe.

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come up to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless angels,

Revelation 17:2

in whose idolatry the kings of the earth have joined, and with the wine of whose idolatry the inhabitants of the earth have been intoxicated."

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Summary

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

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I will save you from your people and from the heathen, to whom I will send you

You know that when you were heathen you would stray off, as impulse directed, to idols that could not speak.

But formerly, in your ignorance of God, you were slaves to gods that really did not exist,