Acts 19:26

A Major Riot In Ephesus

²⁵ When he had assembled them, as well as the workers engaged in this type of business, he said: “Men, you know that our prosperity is derived from this business. ²⁶ You both see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods! ²⁷ So not only do we run a risk that our business may be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be despised and her magnificence come to the verge of ruin—the very one all of Asia and the world adore.”

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Isaiah 44:10-20

Who makes a god or casts a metal image
for no profit?

Acts 17:29

Being God’s offspring then, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.

1 Corinthians 8:4

About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

Jeremiah 10:11

You are to say this to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”

Jeremiah 10:14-15

Everyone is stupid and ignorant.
Every goldsmith is put to shame
by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.

Acts 14:15

“Men! Why are you doing these things? We are men also, with the same nature as you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.

Acts 19:10

And this went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the message about the Lord.

Revelation 9:20

The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands to stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which are not able to see, hear, or walk.

Psalm 115:4-8

Their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.

Psalm 135:15-18

The idols of the nations are of silver and gold,
made by human hands.

Isaiah 46:5-8

“Who will you compare Me or make Me equal to?
Who will you measure Me with,
so that we should be like each other?

Jeremiah 10:3-6

for the customs of the peoples are worthless.
Someone cuts down a tree from the forest;
it is worked by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.

Hosea 8:6

For this thing is from Israel—
a craftsman made it, and it is not God.
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!

Acts 18:19

When they reached Ephesus he left them there, but he himself entered the synagogue and engaged in discussion with the Jews.

Acts 19:18-20

And many who had become believers came confessing and disclosing their practices,

1 Corinthians 10:19-20

What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak.

1 Corinthians 16:8-9

But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,

Galatians 4:8

But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

for they themselves report what kind of reception we had from you: how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God