¹⁵ “Men, ^(A)why are you doing these things? We also are men, ^(B)of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that ^(C)you should turn from these ^(D)vain things to ^(E)a living God, ^(F)who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

¹⁷ Elijah was a man ^(A)with a nature like ours, and ^(B)he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for ^(C)three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.

⁴ Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that ^(A)“an idol has no real existence,” and that ^(B)“there is no God but one.”

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

²¹ And ^(A)do not turn aside after ^(B)empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.

⁷ And he said with a loud voice, ^(A)“Fear God and ^(B)give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and ^(C)worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the ^(D)springs of water.”

The Creation of the World

1 In the ^(A)beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

⁹ For they themselves report concerning us the kind of ^(A)reception we had among you, and how ^(B)you turned to God ^(C)from idols to serve the living and ^(D)true God,