1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

Cross References (27)

  • 1 Timothy 4:10 (12)

    To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and espe

  • 1 Corinthians 12:2 (7)

    You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.

  • Galatians 4:8–9 (6)

    Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

  • Zephaniah 2:11 (4)

    The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:13 (4)

    And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as t

  • Zechariah 8:20–23 (4)

    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities—

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:1 (3)

    You yourselves know, brothers, that our visit to you was not in vain.

  • Psalms 42:2 (3)

    My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

  • Daniel 6:26 (3)

    I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the liv

  • Acts 14:15 (3)

    “Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn fr

  • Acts 26:17–18 (3)

    I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

  • Isaiah 2:17–21 (2)

    So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in tha

  • Isaiah 37:17 (2)

    Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent t

  • 1 Thessalonians 1:5–6 (2)

    because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power, in the Holy Spirit, and with great conviction—just a

  • Deuteronomy 5:26 (2)

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

  • Isaiah 37:4 (2)

    Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the

  • 1 Samuel 17:36 (2)

    Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the a

  • 1 Samuel 17:26 (2)

    David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes thi

  • 2 Corinthians 6:16–17 (2)

    What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

  • Psalms 84:2 (2)

    My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

  • Jeremiah 16:19 (2)

    O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the

  • Hosea 1:10 (2)

    Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happ

  • Jeremiah 10:10 (2)

    But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cann

  • Hebrews 12:22 (1)

    Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of

  • Revelation 17:2 (1)

    The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her imm

  • Romans 9:26 (1)

    and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘son

  • Malachi 1:11 (1)

    For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure