Acts 14:15

Mistaken For Gods In Lystra

¹⁴ But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul heard that, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying ¹⁵ and saying, "Sirs, why do ye this? We are mortal men like unto 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 that in them is, ¹⁶ the which in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

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1 Samuel 12:21

Neither turn ye after vain things which can not deliver you, for they are but vanities.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the gods of the Gentiles, that send rain or give the showers of heaven? Dost not thou it, O LORD our God, in whom we trust? Yea LORD, thou dost all these things."

Acts 10:26

But Peter took him up, saying, "Stand Up: for even I myself am a man."

1 Corinthians 8:4

To speak of meat dedicated unto idols, we are sure that there is none idol in the world: and that there is none other God but one.

James 5:17

Elijah was a man, mortal even as we are, and he prayed in his prayer, that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

Revelation 14:7

saying with a loud voice, "Fear God and give honour to him, for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him, that made heaven and earth, and the sea, and fountains of water."

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created heaven and earth.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have angered me with that which is no god; and provoked me with their vanities. And I, again, will anger them with them which are no people, and will provoke them with a foolish nation.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

for they themselves show of you what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from images for to serve the living and true God,

Jeremiah 8:19

for lo, the voice of the crying of my people is heard from a far country: "Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not the king in her?" "Wherefore then have they grieved me," shall the LORD say, "with their images and foolish strange fashions?"

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter answered, and said, "Thou art Christ, the son of the living God."

Acts 4:24

And when they heard that, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord and said, "Lord, thou art God which hast made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is,

Genesis 41:16

And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace without me."

Exodus 20:11

For in six days the LORD made both heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

Deuteronomy 5:26

For what is any flesh that he should hear the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire as we have done and should yet live:

Joshua 3:10

And Joshua said, "Hereby ye shall know, that the living God is among you, and that he will, without fail, cast out before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perezites, the Gergesites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

1 Samuel 17:26

Then spake David to the men that stood by and said, "What shall be done to the man that beateth this Philistine and taketh away the shame from Israel? For what is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should revile the host of the living God?"

1 Samuel 17:36

For both a Lion and also a Bear hath thy servant slain. And this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, for his railing on the host of the living God."

1 Kings 16:13

for all the sins of Baasha and sins of Elah his son, wherewith they sinned and made Israel sin, to anger the LORD of Israel with their vanities.

1 Kings 16:26

and walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel sin, to anger the LORD God of Israel with their vanities.

2 Kings 19:4

O that the LORD thy God would hear all the words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to rail on the living God, and to rebuke him with words which the LORD thy God hath heard. Wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left."

2 Kings 19:16

LORD, bow thine ears and hear; Open LORD thine eyes and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to rail on the living God.

Psalm 31:6

I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities, and my trust hath been in the LORD.

Psalm 33:6

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 124:8

Our help standeth in the name of the LORD, which hath made heaven and earth.

Psalm 146:5-6

Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, and whose hope is in the LORD his God,

Proverbs 8:23-31

I have been ordained from everlasting, and from the beginning before the earth was made.

Isaiah 44:9-10

All carvers of Images are but vain, and the carved images that they love can do no good. They must bear record themselves, that seeing they can neither see nor understand they shall be confounded.

Isaiah 44:19-20

They ponder not in their minds, for they have neither knowledge nor understanding, to think thus, "I have burnt one piece in the fire; I have baked bread with the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh withal, and eaten it: shall I now of the residue make an abomination, and fall down before a rotten piece of wood?"

Isaiah 45:18

For thus sayeth the LORD, even he that created heaven, the God that made the earth, that fashioned it, and set it forth: I have not made it for naught, but I made it to be inhabited. Even I the LORD, without whom there is none other.

Isaiah 45:20

Let them be gathered and come together, let them draw nigh hither, that are escaped of the people: Have they any understanding, that set up the stocks of their Idols, and praise unto a god, that cannot help them?

Isaiah 46:7

Yet must he be taken on men's shoulders and borne, and set in his place, that he may stand and not move. Alas that men should cry unto him, which giveth no answer; and delivereth not the man that calleth upon him, from his trouble.

Jeremiah 10:3-5

Yea all the customs and laws of the Gentiles are nothing but vanity. They hew down a tree in the wood with the hands of the workman, and fashion it with the axe;

Jeremiah 10:8

They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity:

Jeremiah 10:10-11

But the LORD is a true God, a living God, and an everlasting king. If he be wroth, the earth shaketh: all the Gentiles may not abide his indignation.

Jeremiah 10:14-15

His wisdom maketh all men fools. And confounded be all casters of images, for that they cast is but a vain thing, and hath no life.

Jeremiah 32:17

'O LORD God: It is thou that hast made heaven and earth with thy great power and high arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee.

Daniel 2:28-30

Only God in heaven can open secrets; and he it is, that showeth the king Nebuchadnezzar what is for to come in the latter days. Thy dream, and that which thou hast seen in thine head upon thy bed, is this:

Daniel 6:26

My commandment is, in all my dominion and kingdom, that men fear and stand in awe of Daniel's God. For he is the living God, which abideth ever: his kingdom shall not fail and his power is everlasting.

Amos 2:4

"Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of Judah, I will not spare him: because he hath cast aside the law of the LORD, and not kept his commandments: For why? They would needs be deceived with the lies that their forefathers followed.

Jonah 2:8

They that observe vain vanities, have forsaken him that was merciful unto them.

Zechariah 12:1

The heavy burden which the LORD hath devised for Israel. Thus sayeth the LORD, which spread the heavens abroad, laid the foundation of the earth, and giveth man the breath of life,

John 5:26

For as the father hath life in himself, so likewise hath he given to the son to have life in himself.

John 7:18

He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own praise. But he that seeketh his praise that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

Acts 3:12-13

When Peter saw that, he answered unto the people, "Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or why look ye so steadfastly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man go?

Acts 7:26

And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, 'Sirs, ye are brethren why hurt ye 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 declare unto you, how that the promise made unto the fathers;

Acts 14:7

and there preached the gospel.

Acts 14:21

After they had preached to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium and Antioch,

Acts 16:30

and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

Acts 17:16-18

While Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was moved in him to see the city given to worshipping of images.

Acts 17:24-30

God, that made the world, and all that are in it, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, he dwelleth not in temples made with hands,

Acts 26:17-20

delivering thee from the people, and from the gentiles, unto thee which now I send thee,

Acts 27:10

and said unto them, "Sirs I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not of the lading and ship only: but also of our lives."

Acts 27:21

Then after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them and said, "Sirs, ye should have hearkened to me, and not have loosed from Crete, neither to have brought unto us this harm and loss.

Acts 27:25

Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God that so it shall be even as it was told me;

Romans 1:20-23

So that his invisible things, that is to say, his eternal power and godhead, are understood and seen by the works from the creation of the world. So that they are without excuse,

Ephesians 4:17

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk; in vanity of their mind,

1 Timothy 3:15

But and if I tarry long, that then thou mayst yet have knowledge how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the congregation of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth.

Hebrews 3:12

Take heed, brethren, that there be in none of you an evil heart, in unbelief, that he should depart from the living God:

Revelation 19:10

And I fell at his feet, to worship him. And he said unto me, "See thou do it not. For I am thy fellow servant, and one of thy brethren, and of them that 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 warriors gathered together to make battle against him that sat on the horse and against his soldiers.

Revelation 22:9

And he said unto me, "See thou do it not, for I am thy fellow servant and the fellow servant of thy brethren the prophets and of them which keep the sayings of this book. But worship God."