¹⁵ and saying, “Men, ^(A)why are you doing these things? ^(B)We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from ^(C)these useless things ^(D)to the living God, ^(E)who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them,

¹⁷ Elijah was a man ^(A)with a nature like ours, and ^(B)he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

⁴ Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that ^(A)an idol is nothing in the world, ^(B)and that there is no other God but one.

²⁶ But Peter lifted him up, saying, ^(A)“Stand up; I myself am also a man.”

²¹ And ^(A)do not turn aside; ^(B)for then you would go after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing.

⁷ saying with a loud voice, ^(A)“Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; ^(B)and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.”

The History of Creation^(A)

1 In the ^(B)beginning ^(C)God created the heavens and the earth.

⁹ For they themselves declare concerning us ^(A)what manner of entry we had to you, ^(B)and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

The New Man

¹⁷ This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should ^(A)no longer walk as ^[a]the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,