因为他们自己已经报明我们是怎样进到你们那里，你们是怎样离弃偶像，归向神，要服侍那又真又活的神，

因为他们自己已经传讲我们是怎样进到你们那里，你们是怎样离弃偶像，归向上帝来服侍那又真又活的上帝，

因为他们自己已经传讲我们是怎样进到你们那里，你们是怎样离弃偶像，归向神来服侍那又真又活的神，

因为人们都在传讲你们如何接待我们，如何离弃偶像归向上帝，事奉又真又活的上帝，

他们都述说你们是怎样接待我们，而且怎样离弃偶像归向神，要服事这位又真又活的神，

其实他们自己在宣扬有关我们的事，说我们是怎样进到你们那里，你们是怎样离弃偶像归向神、服事又活又真的神，

因為他們自己已經報明我們是怎樣進到你們那裏，你們是怎樣離棄偶像，歸向神，要服事那又真又活的神，

因為他們自己已經傳講我們是怎樣進到你們那裏，你們是怎樣離棄偶像，歸向上帝來服侍那又真又活的上帝，

因為他們自己已經傳講我們是怎樣進到你們那裏，你們是怎樣離棄偶像，歸向神來服侍那又真又活的神，

因為人們都在傳講你們如何接待我們，如何離棄偶像歸向上帝，事奉又真又活的上帝，

他們都述說你們是怎樣接待我們，而且怎樣離棄偶像歸向神，要服事這位又真又活的神，

因為他們自己正在傳布我們的事、說我們到你們中間是怎樣受了歡迎，你們又怎樣離棄了偶像，轉向上帝、來服事一位永活而真的上帝，

其實他們自己在宣揚有關我們的事，說我們是怎樣進到你們那裡，你們是怎樣離棄偶像歸向神、服事又活又真的神，

蓋彼自言我如何入於爾中、爾如何棄像而歸上帝、以事生且真之上帝、

其言我至爾處、爾棄偶像、歸真有永生上帝以事之、

蓋彼眾自言我儕如何至爾處、爾如何棄偶像、而歸永生之真天主、

外間頗有人嘖嘖稱道吾儕如何獲爾之心、爾等如何拋棄偶像、歸依聖教、兢兢業業、奉事永生真實之天主、

for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

The believers themselves report the kind of welcome you gave us. They tell about how you turned away from statues of gods. And you turned to serve the living and true God.

For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

for they keep talking about the wonderful welcome you gave us and how you turned away from idols to serve the living and true God.

for they themselves report what kind of reception we had from you: how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

For they themselves report about us as to the kind of reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

for they themselves report what kind of reception we had from you: how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe. (niv)

You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. (niv)

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.But now that you know God— or rather are known by God— how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? (niv)

And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe. (niv)

You know, brothers and sisters, that our visit to you was not without results. (niv)

“ Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them. (niv)

What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:“ I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”Therefore,“ Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” (niv)

“ I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel.“ For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end. (niv)

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? (niv)

This is what the Lord Almighty says:“ Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come,and the inhabitants of one city will go to another and say,‘ Let us go at once to entreat the Lord and seek the Lord Almighty. I myself am going.’And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord Almighty and to entreat him.”This is what the Lord Almighty says:“ In those days ten people from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say,‘ Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.’” (niv)

For what mortal has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and survived? (niv)

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to themto open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’ (niv)

My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord Almighty. (niv)

Give ear, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see; listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God. (niv)

Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. (niv)

David asked the men standing near him,“ What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?” (niv)

The arrogance of man will be brought low and human pride humbled; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,and the idols will totally disappear.People will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.In that day people will throw away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship.They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth. (niv)

“ Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them,‘ You are not my people,’ they will be called‘ children of the living God.’ (niv)

My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. (niv)

Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say,“ Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good. (niv)

because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake.You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. (niv)

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath. (niv)

It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.” (niv)

The Lord will be awesome to them when he destroys all the gods of the earth. Distant nations will bow down to him, all of them in their own lands. (niv)

and,“ In the very place where it was said to them,‘ You are not my people,’ there they will be called‘ children of the living God.’” (niv)

With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.” (niv)

But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, (niv)