Acts 19:26

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Summary

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

That they

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And this took place for two years, so that all that inhabited Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

But I remain in Ephesus until Pentecost.

for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

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and saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, preaching to you to turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them;

Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man's art and imagination.

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 formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

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

For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for it is a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan;

For from Israel is this also: a workman made it, and itis no God: for the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God save one.

What then do I say? that what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Ye know that when ye were of the nations ye were led away to dumb idols, in whatever way ye might be led.

But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods;

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Their cattle, and their possessions, and every beast of theirs, shall they not be ours? only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.

thou shalt make thyself no molten gods.

Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no-gods?