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

This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,

For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

That they

"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

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

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

Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

"To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

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 this is even from Israel. The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

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Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?'"