¹⁵ “People,^[a] why are you doing this? We are mortals just like you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.^(A)

¹⁷ Elijah was a human like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.^(A)

⁴ Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists” and that “there is no God but one.”^(A)

²⁶ But Peter made him get up, saying, “Stand up; I am only a mortal.”^(A)

²¹ and do not turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or save, for they are useless.^(A)

⁷ He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”^(A)

Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath

1 When God began to create^[a] the heavens and the earth,^(A)

⁹ For they report about us what kind of welcome we had among you and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God^(A)

The Old Life and the New

¹⁷ Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer walk as the^[a] gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds;^(A)