Bible Cross References
Paul
Acts 14:14-18
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But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard this, they tore their garments and rushed in to the crowd, crying out
15
and saying, "Men! Why are you doing these things? We men are of the same nature as you, preaching the gospel to you, that you must turn from these useless things to turn to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them,
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who in the generations having gone by permitted all the Gentiles to walk in their ways.
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And yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, giving to you rains from heaven and fruitbearing seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
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And saying these things, they scarcely stopped the crowds from sacrificing to them.
Acts 17:22-31
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Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men, Athenians, according to all things I perceive you as [being] very religious;
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for as I passed by and considered the objects of your worship, I found also an altar on which it had been inscribed: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, [Him] whom being ignorant of you worship, this [One] I announce to you:
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The God who made the world and all the things in it, Him being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands,
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nor by the hands of men is He served, as though He needed anything, for He gives to all life, and breath, with respect to all things.
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And He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, and He ordained their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,
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[in order for them] to seek the Lord, if perhaps indeed they might grope for Him and find [Him], and yet being indeed not far from each one of us;
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for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.'
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"Therefore, being the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and the imagination of man.
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So then these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all men everywhere to repent,
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because He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He appointed, having given proof to all, by raising Him from the dead."
Acts 21:39
But Paul said, "I am a Jew from Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of no obscure city; and I request of you, permit me to speak to the people."
the disciples
2 Samuel 18:2
And David sent the people away, a third part under the hand of Joab, a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And David said to the people, I also will surely go out with you.
2 Samuel 18:3
And they said, You shall not go out; for if we should indeed flee, they will not care for us; and if half of us should die, they will not mind us; for you [are] as ten thousand of us; and now [it is] well that you shall be to us an aid to help us in the city.
2 Samuel 21:17
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore, saying, You shall not any longer go out with us to battle, and you shall not quench the lamp of Israel.