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1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

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1 Thessalonians 1:5
Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

1 Thessalonians 1:6
And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;

1 Thessalonians 1:7
So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia.

1 Thessalonians 1:8
For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.

1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

1 Thessalonians 1:10
Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.

Acts 17:4
And some of them had faith, and were joined to Paul and Silas; and a number of the God-fearing Greeks, and some of the chief women.

1 Thessalonians 2:13
And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

Acts 17:6
And when they were not able to get them, they took Jason and some of the brothers by force before the rulers of the town, crying, These men, who have made trouble all over the world have now come here;

Romans 1:8
First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.

Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,

Romans 1:25
Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

Revelation 3:7
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.

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Acts 14:15
Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

Hosea 1:10
But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God

Matthew 16:16
And Simon Peter made answer and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

2 Corinthians 6:17
For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

1 Timothy 3:15
But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.

John 5:26
For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.

Romans 9:26
And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.

1 Timothy 4:10
And this is the purpose of all our work and our fighting, because our hope is in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and specially of those who have faith.

Matthew 26:63
But Jesus said not a word. And the high priest said to him, I put you on oath, by the living God, that you will say to us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.

2 Corinthians 3:3
For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.

John 6:69
And we have faith and are certain that you are the Holy One of God.

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Jeremiah 10:10
But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.

Deuteronomy 5:26
For what man is there in all the earth, who, hearing the voice of the living God as we have, out of the heart of the fire, has been kept from death?

1 Samuel 17:26
And David said to the men near him, What will be done to the man who overcomes this Philistine and takes away the shame from Israel? for who is this Philistine, a man without circumcision, that he has put shame on the armies of the living God?

Psalms 42:2
My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?

Joshua 3:10
And Joshua said, By this you will see that the living God is among you, and that he will certainly send out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.

Daniel 6:26
It is my order that in all the kingdom of which I am ruler, men are to be shaking with fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, unchanging for ever, and his kingdom is one which will never come to destruction, his rule will go on to the end.

2 Kings 19:4
It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so then make your prayer for the rest of the people.

1 Samuel 17:36
Your servant has overcome lion and bear: and the fate of this Philistine, who is without circumcision, will be like theirs, seeing that he has put shame on the armies of the living God.

Psalms 84:2
The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

Jeremiah 23:36
And you will no longer put people in mind of the word of weight of the Lord: for every man's word will be a weight on himself; for the words of the living God, of the Lord of armies, our God, have been twisted by you.

Psalms 18:46
The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.

Isaiah 37:17
Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.

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1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you yourselves, brothers, are conscious that our coming among you was not without effect:

1 Thessalonians 1:3
Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

1 Thessalonians 1:4
Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose;

1 Thessalonians 1:1
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;

2 Thessalonians 3:1
For the rest, my brothers, let there be prayer for us that the word of the Lord may go forward with increasing glory, even as it does with you;

Acts 15:12
And all the people were quiet while Barnabas and Paul gave an account of the signs and wonders which God had done among the Gentiles by them.

Acts 17:2
And Paul, as he generally did, went in to them, and on three Sabbath days had discussions with them from the holy Writings,

Romans 1:18
For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;

Romans 16:19
For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.

1 Thessalonians 2:12
So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.

1 Thessalonians 5:5
For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

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1 John 5:20
And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

1 John 5:21
My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.

1 Corinthians 8:4
So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

John 17:3
And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:2
You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.

Galatians 4:8
But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

2 Chronicles 15:3
Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;

Deuteronomy 6:4
Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:

1 Corinthians 10:19
Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?

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Acts 26:18
To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

Acts 26:19
So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven;

Acts 26:20
But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

Acts 15:19
For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God;

Hosea 14:2
Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.

Acts 9:35
And all those living in Lydda and Sharon saw him, and were turned to the Lord.

2 Corinthians 3:16
But when it is turned to the Lord, the veil will be taken away.

Hosea 12:6
So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.

Luke 1:16
And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God.

Luke 1:17
And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:22
But if they had been in my secret, then they would have made my people give ear to my words, turning them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

Lamentations 3:40
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

Acts 11:21
And the power of the Lord was with them, and a great number had faith and were turned to the Lord.

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Hebrews 9:14
How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

Hebrews 3:12
My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,

Revelation 7:2
And I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the mark of the living God: and he said with a great voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to do damage to the earth and the sea,

Hebrews 10:31
We may well go in fear of falling into the hands of the living God.

2 Corinthians 6:11
Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is wide.

1 Timothy 6:16
Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.

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Psalms 22:27
All the ends of the earth will keep it in mind and be turned to the Lord: all the families of the nations will give him worship.

Jeremiah 16:19
O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.

Zechariah 8:20
This is what the Lord of armies has said: It will again come about that when peoples and those living in great towns come,

Zechariah 8:21
And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you.

Zechariah 8:22
And great peoples and strong nations will come to give worship to the Lord of armies in Jerusalem and to make requests for grace from the Lord.

Zechariah 8:23
This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.

Isaiah 2:20
In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;

Isaiah 44:5
One will say, I am the Lord's; and another will give himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I am the Lord's, and another will take the name of Israel for himself.

Hosea 14:8
As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

Malachi 1:11
For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies.

Acts 17:34
But some men gave him their support: among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

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2 Peter 2:18
For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

1 Peter 4:3
Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

1 Corinthians 1:7
So that having every grace you are living in the hope of the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,

Titus 2:12
Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;

Titus 2:13
Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.

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Luke 16:11
If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth?

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John 12:26
If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.

Acts 27:23
For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am,

1 Corinthians 7:22
For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.

Galatians 1:10
Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Ephesians 6:7
Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:

Colossians 3:24
Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.

2 Timothy 2:24
For it is not right for the Lord's servant to make trouble, but he is to be gentle to all, ready in teaching, putting up with wrong,

2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and Apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who with us have a part in the same holy faith in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

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Acts 19:18
And a number of those who had faith came and made a public statement of their sins and all their acts.

Acts 19:19
And a great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: and when the books were valued they came to fifty thousand bits of silver.

Acts 19:20
So the word of the Lord was increased very greatly and was full of power.

1 Corinthians 16:9
For a great and important door there is open to me, and there are a number of people against me.

2 Corinthians 2:12
Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and there was an open door for me in the Lord,

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