1 Thessalonians 1:9
People tell us of their own accord about the visit we paid to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and a real God
1 Corinthians 12:2
You know when you were pagans, how your impulses led you to dumb idols;
Acts 14:15
shouting, "Men, what is this you are doing? We are but human, with natures like your own! The gospel we are preaching to you is to turn from such futile ways to the living God who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that in them is.
1 Thessalonians 2:1
But you remember yourselves, brothers, that our visit to you was no failure.
Acts 26:17-18
I will rescue you from the People and also from the Gentiles ??to whom I send you,
Romans 9:26
on the very spot where they were told, 'You are no people of mine,' there shall they be called 'sons of the living God.'
2 Corinthians 6:16-17
What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God ??as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.
Galatians 4:8-9
In those days, when you were ignorant of God, you were in servitude to gods who are really no gods at all;
1 Thessalonians 1:5-6
for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good),
1 Thessalonians 2:13
We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,
1 Timothy 4:10
that "we toil and strive because our hope is fixed upon the living God, the Saviour of all men" ??of believers in particular.
Hebrews 12:22
You have come to mount Sion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering,
Revelation 17:2
with whom the kings of earth have committed vice, and the dwellers on earth have been drunk with the wine of her vice."