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

And this was for two years: so that all dwelling in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

And I will remain in Ephesus even till Pentecost.

For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God;

That they

And saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of similar passions with you, announcing good news to turn you back from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and sea, and all in them:

Being therefore the posterity of God, we ought not to think gold, or silver, or stone, an engraving of art, or meditation of man, the divinity to be like.

Their images are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.

The images of the nation are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.

Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting for nothing?

To whom will ye liken me and make equal? and compare me and we shall be like?

For the laws of the peoples, this vanity: for they cut down a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

For from Israel, and this workman made it, and it is not God: for the calf of Shomeron shall be broken in pieces.

Concerning food therefore of sacrifices to idols, we know that an idol nothing in the world, and that none other God but one.

What do I say therefore? that an idol is any thing? or that what is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?

Ye know that ye were the nations, to dumb idols, as ye were led, being carried away.

But then truly, not having known God, ye were in a servile condition to them not being gods by nature.

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Their cattle and their possession and all their quadrupeds, shall they not be to us? only we will consent to them, and they will dwell with us.

Thou shalt make to thee no molten gods.

Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting for nothing?

Shall man make to himself gods, and they not gods?