Acts 19:26

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Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:

That not

Acts 19:10

1 Corinthians 16:8

1 Thessalonians 1:9

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And this continued for the space of two years; so that all they that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost;

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,

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and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.

Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.

Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?

To whom will ye like me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.

What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might led.

Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:

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Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?

Shall a man make unto himself gods, which yet are no gods?