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 went on for two years, so that everyone who lived in Asia, Greeks as well as Jews, heard the Lord's message.

But I shall stay in Ephesus until the Harvest Festival,

For when people speak of us, they tell what a welcome you gave us, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a true and living God,

That they

and shouting, "Friends, why are you doing this? We are only human beings like you, and we bring you the good news that you should turn from these follies to a living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain.

So if we are God's children we ought not to imagine that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, wrought by human art and thought.

As to eating things, then, that have been offered to idols, we all know that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one.

What am I saying then? That there is any such thing as being offered to an idol, or any such thing as an idol?

You know that when you were heathen you would stray off, as impulse directed, to idols that could not speak.

But formerly, in your ignorance of God, you were slaves to gods that really did not exist,