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

But I shall remain at Ephesus until the Pentecost;

For they themselves are reporting concerning us what kind of reception we had among you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

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and saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of like nature with you, bringing to you glad tidings, that ye may turn from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea, and all things that are therein;

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Deity is like to gold or silver or stone, graven by the art and device of man.

Concerning the eating of the things offered in sacrifice to idols, then, 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 what is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything? Or that an idol is anything?

Ye know, that when ye were gentiles, ye were carried away to dumb idols, as ye happened to be led;

But at that time, indeed, when ye knew not God, ye were in slavery to those who in their nature are not gods;