Acts 19:26

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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

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And this continued by the space of two years so that all those who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

For they themselves tell of us what an entrance we had unto you and in what manner ye were converted to God from idols to serve the living and true God

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and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things that are therein,

Being therefore of the lineage of God, we ought not to think that which is Divine is like unto gold or silver or stone, bearing the mark of art and man's imagination.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Who has formed God? And who cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

To whom will ye liken me and make me equal and compare me that we may be alike?

For the customs of the peoples are vanity: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

For it is of Israel; and a workman made it who is not God: because the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

As concerning, therefore, the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

What do I say then? that the idol is anything or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?

Ye know that when ye were Gentiles, ye went, even as ye were led, unto the dumb idols.

However then, when ye did not know God, ye did service unto those who by nature are not gods.

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Shall not their livestock and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? Only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

Who has formed God? And who cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

Shall a man make gods unto himself? But they shall not be gods.