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 took place for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost,

For [they] themselves report about us, what sort of welcome we had with 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 men with the same nature as you, proclaiming the good news [that] you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things [that are] in them--

Therefore, [because we] are offspring of God, we ought not to think the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought.

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

The idols of the nations [are] silver and gold, [the] work of the hands of humankind.

Who would form a god and cast an image of [which] he cannot profit?

To whom will you liken me, and count as equal, and compare with me, as though we were alike?

For the statutes of the peoples [are] vanity, for it [is] a tree cut down from [the] forest, [the] work of [the] hands of a craftsman with the tool.

Because [it is] from Israel, an artisan made it, it [is] not a god; for the calf of Samaria will be broken [to] pieces.

Therefore, concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that "an idol [is] nothing in the world" and that "[there is] no God except one."

Therefore, what am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

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

But at that time [when you] did not know God, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are not gods.

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Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals [be] ours? Only let us give consent to them so they will live among us."

You will not make gods of cast metal for yourself.

Who would form a god and cast an image of [which] he cannot profit?

Can a human make for himself gods? Yet they [are] not gods!"