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 they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost:

for they themselves show of you what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from images for to serve the living and true God,

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and saying, "Sirs, why do ye this? We are mortal men like unto you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is,

Forasmuch then as we are the generation of God, we ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold, silver, or stone, graven by craft and imagination of man.

Their images are but silver and gold, even the work of men's hands.

As for the images of the heathen, they are but silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Who should now make a God, or fashion an Image, that is profitable for nothing?

Whom will ye make me like, in fashion or image, that I may be like him?

Yea all the customs and laws of the Gentiles are nothing but vanity. They hew down a tree in the wood with the hands of the workman, and fashion it with the axe;

For the calf came from Israel; the workman made it: therefore can it be no God, but even to a spider's web shall the calf of Samaria be turned.

To speak of meat dedicated unto idols, we are sure that there is none idol in the world: and that there is none other God but one.

What say I then? That the image is anything? Or that it which is offered to images is anything?

Ye know that ye were gentiles, and went your ways unto dumb idols, even as ye were led.

Notwithstanding, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them, which by nature were no gods:

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Their goods and their substance and all their cattle are ours, only let us consent unto them, that they may dwell with us."

they make thy sons go a whoring after their gods also. Thou shalt make thee no gods of metal.

Who should now make a God, or fashion an Image, that is profitable for nothing?

How can a man make those, his gods, which are not able to be gods?"