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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That not

This went on for two years, so that everybody living in the province of Asia, Greeks as well as Jews, heard the Lord's message.

But I shall stay on in Ephesus until the time of Harvest Feast.

For the people themselves tell us what a welcome you gave us, and how you turned from idols to the true God, to serve the God who lives on and is real,

That they

and shouted, "Men, why are you doing this? We are merely men with natures like your own, who are telling you the good news, so that you may turn from these foolish things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain.

Since then we are God's offspring, we ought not to suppose that His nature is like gold or silver or stone or anything carved by man's art and thought.

So, as to eating things that have been sacrificed to idols, we are sure that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One.

Then what do I mean? That the sacrifice to an idol is a reality, or that an idol itself is a reality? Of course not!

You know that when you were heathen you were in the habit of going off, wherever you might be led, after idols that could not speak.

But at that former time, as you did not know the true God, you were slaves to gods that do not really exist,