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 took place for two years, so that all who lived in

Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost;

For they themselves report about us what kind of a

reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve

a living and true God,

That they

and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, and preach the gospel to you that you should turn from these

vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

The idols of the nations are but silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?

“To whom would you liken Me
And make Me equal and compare Me,
That we would be alike?

For the customs of the peoples are

delusion;

Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

For from Israel is even this!
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.

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

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

You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the mute idols, however you were led.

However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods.

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Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will live with us.”

You shall make for yourself no molten gods.

Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?

Can man make gods for himself?
Yet they are not gods!