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 continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,

For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

That they

"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing?

"To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?

for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.

For it is from Israel; a craftsman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.

Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one."

What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.

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Will not their livestock, their property and all their beasts be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us."

"You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing?

Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods!"