Acts 14:15 Cross References - Sawyer

¹⁵ and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We are also men subject to like sufferings with you, preaching that you should turn from these vain [services] to the living God, who made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things in them,

¹⁶ And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so has he also given to the Son to have life in himself;

¹⁸ He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that sent him, this [man] is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

¹² And Peter seeing it answered the people, Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this? or why do you look intently at us as if by our power or piety we had made him walk? ¹³ The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied before Pilate when he decided to release him;

²⁴ And when they heard it they lifted up their voice with one consent to God, and said, Master, thou who hast made heaven, and the earth, the sea, and all things in them,

^{26 (5:9)} On the following day also he showed himself to them as they contended, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers; why do you injure one another?

²⁶ But Peter raised him up saying, Arise, I also am a man.

²² and the people shouted, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. ²³ And an angel of the Lord instantly smote him because he gave not glory to God, and being eaten with worms he expired.

³² And we declare to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers,

⁷ and preached the good news there.

²¹ And having preached the good news to that city, and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch,

³⁰ and bringing them out said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

^{16 (15:4)} And while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was moved within him as he saw the city wholly devoted to idolatry. ¹⁷ Then he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and those that were pious, and in the market every day with those he met. ¹⁸ And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers disputed with him, and some said, What does this trifler mean to say? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange demons; because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

²⁴ The God who made the world and all things in it, this [God] being Lord of heaven and earth dwells not in temples made with hands, ²⁵ neither is he served by the hands of men as needing any thing, since he gives to all life, and breath, and all things; ²⁶ and he made of one blood every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, determining their appointed times and the bounds of their habitation, ²⁷ that they should seek God, if perhaps they might feel after and find him, and indeed he is not far from every one of us. ²⁸ For in him we live, and move, and are; as some also of your own poets have said, For we are his offspring. ²⁹ Being therefore an offspring of God, we ought not to think the Deity to be like gold or silver or stone, a work of art and human device. ^{30 (15:6)} Overlooking therefore the times of ignorance, God now commands all men everywhere to change their minds,

¹⁷ delivering you from the people, and the gentiles, to whom I send you ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among the sanctified by faith in me. ¹⁹ Whence, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, ²⁰ but preached first to those at Damascus and Jerusalem, and in all the country of Judea, and to the gentiles, that they should change their minds and turn to God, performing works worthy of a change of mind.

¹⁰ saying to them, Men, I see that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and ship, but also of our lives.

^{21 (24:5)} Then there having been long abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them and said, You ought, men, taking my advice, not to have sailed from Crete, and to have saved this injury and loss.

²⁵ Wherefore, men, be of good courage; for I believe God, that it will be as he has told me;

²⁰ For his invisible [attributes] are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they have no defense, ²¹ because having known God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their ignorant mind was darkened. ²² Saying that they were wise they became foolish, ²³ and changed the glory of the imperishable God into the likeness of the image of perishable man, and of birds, and quadrupeds, and reptiles.

⁴ Concerning eating things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

^{17 (2:3)} This I say then and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds,

⁹ for they declare of us what introduction we had to you, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve the living and true God,

¹⁵ but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

¹² See, brothers, that there be not at any time in any one of you an evil mind of unbelief in departing from the living God;

¹⁷ Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed that it might not rain, and it rained not on the land for three years and six months;

⁷ saying with a loud voice, Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him that made heaven and the earth and the sea and fountains of waters.

¹⁰ And I fell before his feet to worship him. And he said to me, See [that you do it] not; 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.

¹⁹ And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled together to make war with him that sat on the horse and with his army.

⁹ And he said to me, See [that you do it] not; for I am your fellow servant and of your brothers the prophets and of those that keep the words of this book; worship God.