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 happened for two years so that all those dwelling in Asia did hear the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks,

and I will remain in Ephesus till the Pentecost,

for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,

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and saying, 'Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;

'Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;

Their idols are silver and gold, work of man's hands,

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, Work of the hands of man.

Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?

To whom do ye liken Me, and make equal? And compare Me, that we may be like?

For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, For a tree from a forest hath one cut, Work of the hands of an artificer, with an axe,

For even it is of Israel; an artificer made it, And it is not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!

Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --

ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;

But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

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their cattle, and their substance, and all their beasts -- are they not ours? only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.'

a molten god thou dost not make to thyself.

Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?

Doth man make for himself gods, And they -- no gods?