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

Bible References

That not

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

But I will continue in Ephesus till Pentecost:

For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

That they

and saying: Men, why are you doing these things? We also are human beings, with passions like your own, and we preach the gospel to you, that you may turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them;

Therefore, being the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhood is like gold, or silver, or stone, sculptured by art and the device of man.

With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

What, then, do I say? That an idol is any thing? or, that what is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?

You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to those dumb idols, as you might be led.

But, then, because you knew not God, you were enslaved to those who, by nature, are not gods: