Acts 14:15

and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preaching the gospel to you to turn you from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them;

1 Samuel 12:21

And do not turn aside to go after vanities, which cannot profit nor deliver. For they are vain.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the vanities of the nations who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Jehovah our God? Then we will wait on You; for You do all these things.

Acts 10:26

But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up! I also am a man myself.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Then concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

James 5:17

Elijah was a man of like passion as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months.

Revelation 14:7

saying with a great voice, Fear God and give glory to Him! For the hour of His judgment has come. And worship Him who made the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have moved Me to jealousy with a no-god. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities. And I will move them to jealousy with a no-people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves witness what kind of entrance we had to you, even how you turned from idols to God in order to serve the living and true God,

Jeremiah 8:19

Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, from a far country. Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her King in her? Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign vanities?

Matthew 16:16

And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Acts 4:24

And having heard, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord and said, Lord, You are the God who made the heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that is in them;

Genesis 41:16

And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, Not I. God shall answer the welfare of Pharaoh.

Exodus 20:11

For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day, and sanctified it.

Deuteronomy 5:26

For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

Joshua 3:10

And Joshua said, By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

1 Samuel 17:26

And David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine and takes away this shame from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?

1 Samuel 17:36

Your servant killed both the lion and the bear. And this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.

1 Kings 16:13

for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned and that they made Israel to sin, in provoking Jehovah, the God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

1 Kings 16:26

For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

2 Kings 19:4

It may be Jehovah your God will hear all the words of the chief cupbearer with which his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah your God has heard. And you shall lift up prayer for the rest who are left.

2 Kings 19:16

Jehovah, bow down Your ear and hear. O Jehovah, open Your eyes and see, and hear the words of Sennacherib, who has sent him to taunt the living God.

Psalm 31:6

I have hated those who take heed to lying vanities; but I trust in Jehovah.

Psalm 33:6

By the Word of Jehovah were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.

Psalm 124:8

Our help is in the name of Jehovah, who made the heavens and earth.

Psalm 146:5-6

Blessed is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose help is in Jehovah his God,

Proverbs 8:23-31

I was anointed from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth ever was.

Isaiah 44:9-10

Those who make a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things in which they delight shall not help; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed.

Isaiah 44:19-20

And none thinks within his heart, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten; and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

Isaiah 45:18

For so says Jehovah the Creator of the heavens, He is God, forming the earth and making it; He makes it stand, not creating it empty, but forming it to be inhabited. I am Jehovah, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:20

Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, escaped ones of the nations; those who set up the wood of their graven image, and those that pray to a god that cannot save. They know nothing.

Isaiah 46:7

They carry it on the shoulder, they carry it and set it in its place, and it stands; it shall not move from its place. Yes, one shall cry to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

Jeremiah 10:3-5

For the customs of the people are vain; for one cuts a tree out of the forest with the axe, the work of the hands of the workman.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities.

Jeremiah 10:10-11

But Jehovah is the true God, He is the living God, and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to stand His fury.

Jeremiah 10:14-15

Every man is stupid for lack of knowledge; every refiner is put to shame by the graven image; for his molten image is a lie, and no breath is in them.

Jeremiah 32:17

Ah, Lord Jehovah! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and stretched out arm. Nothing is too great for You.

Daniel 2:28-30

But there is a God in Heaven who reveals secrets and makes known to King Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed are these.

Daniel 6:26

I make a decree that in all the domain of my kingdom, there shall be trembling and fear before the God of Daniel. For He is the living God, and endures forever, and His kingdom is that which shall not be destroyed, and His rule shall be to the end.

Amos 2:4

So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they have despised the Laws of Jehovah, and have not kept His commandments. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.

Jonah 2:8

They who take heed to lying vanities forsake their kindness;

Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the Word of Jehovah for Israel, says Jehovah, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.

John 5:26

For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has given to the Son to have life within Himself,

John 7:18

He who speaks of himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of Him who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.

Acts 3:12-13

And seeing this, Peter answered the people, Men, Israelites, why do you marvel at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though we had made this man to walk by our own power or holiness?

Acts 7:26

And the next day he appeared to them while fighting. And he urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers, why do you wrong one another?

Acts 12:22-23

And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god and not of a man!

Acts 13:32

And we preach the gospel to you, the promise made to the fathers,

Acts 14:7

And there they were preaching the gospel.

Acts 14:21

And preaching the gospel to that city, and having made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,

Acts 16:30

And leading them outside, he said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

Acts 17:16-18

But awaiting them in Athens, Paul's spirit was pained within him, seeing the city full of idols.

Acts 17:24-30

The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of Heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,

Acts 26:17-20

delivering you from the people and the nations, to whom I now send you

Acts 27:10

saying, Men, I perceive that this voyage is about to be with much harm and loss, and not only much cargo and of the ship, but also of our souls.

Acts 27:21

But there being much fasting, then standing up in their midst, Paul said, O men, being obedient to me you ought not to have set sail from Crete, and to have come by this harm and loss.

Acts 27:25

Therefore, men, be of good cheer, for I believe God, that it will be so, according to the way it was told me.

Romans 1:20-23

For the unseen things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being realized by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse.

Ephesians 4:17

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

1 Timothy 3:15

But if I should delay, that you may know how you ought to behave in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Hebrews 3:12

Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

Revelation 19:10

And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said to me, See, do not do it! I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Revelation 19:19

And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth and their armies, being gathered to make war against Him who sat on the horse, and against His army.

Revelation 22:9

Then he said to me, Behold! See, do not do it! For I am your fellow-servant, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the Words of this Book. Do worship to God.

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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:

And preach

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Bible References

Sirs

Acts 7:26
And the next day he appeared to them while fighting. And he urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers, why do you wrong one another?
Acts 16:30
And leading them outside, he said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
Acts 27:10
saying, Men, I perceive that this voyage is about to be with much harm and loss, and not only much cargo and of the ship, but also of our souls.

We also

Acts 3:12
And seeing this, Peter answered the people, Men, Israelites, why do you marvel at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though we had made this man to walk by our own power or holiness?
Acts 12:22
And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god and not of a man!
Genesis 41:16
And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, Not I. God shall answer the welfare of Pharaoh.
Daniel 2:28
But there is a God in Heaven who reveals secrets and makes known to King Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed are these.
John 7:18
He who speaks of himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of Him who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.

Of like

James 5:17
Elijah was a man of like passion as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months.
Revelation 19:10
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said to me, See, do not do it! I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

And preach

Acts 17:16
But awaiting them in Athens, Paul's spirit was pained within him, seeing the city full of idols.
Acts 26:17
delivering you from the people and the nations, to whom I now send you

From

Deuteronomy 32:21
They have moved Me to jealousy with a no-god. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities. And I will move them to jealousy with a no-people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
1 Samuel 12:21
And do not turn aside to go after vanities, which cannot profit nor deliver. For they are vain.
1 Kings 16:13
for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned and that they made Israel to sin, in provoking Jehovah, the God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
Psalm 31:6
I have hated those who take heed to lying vanities; but I trust in Jehovah.
Isaiah 44:9
Those who make a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things in which they delight shall not help; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed.
Isaiah 45:20
Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, escaped ones of the nations; those who set up the wood of their graven image, and those that pray to a god that cannot save. They know nothing.
Isaiah 46:7
They carry it on the shoulder, they carry it and set it in its place, and it stands; it shall not move from its place. Yes, one shall cry to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Jeremiah 8:19
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, from a far country. Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her King in her? Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign vanities?
Jeremiah 10:3
For the customs of the people are vain; for one cuts a tree out of the forest with the axe, the work of the hands of the workman.
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the nations who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Jehovah our God? Then we will wait on You; for You do all these things.
Amos 2:4
So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they have despised the Laws of Jehovah, and have not kept His commandments. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.
Jonah 2:8
They who take heed to lying vanities forsake their kindness;
Romans 1:21
Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Then concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.
Ephesians 4:17
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

General references

Acts 7:50
Has not My hand made all these things?"