Acts 19:37 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁷ For you have brought these men here --- [men] who have neither desecrated our temple nor defamed our goddess.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ For you have brought these men here, who are [guilty of] neither temple robberies nor blasphemous speech about our goddess.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ For ye have brought hither these men, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.

Common English Bible

³⁷ The men you brought here have neither robbed the temple nor slandered our goddess.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ For you have brought forward these men, who are neither sacrilegious nor blasphemers against your goddess.

Acts 19:37 Cross References

Acts 19:36

Since no one can [really] say anything against these things, just calm down and do not do anything foolish.

Acts 25:8

Paul replied in his defense, “I have not committed any sin against the law of the Jews, nor against the Temple, nor against Caesar.”

Romans 2:22

You say that a person should not commit adultery [i.e., sexual unfaithfulness to their mate], [but] do you commit adultery? You [claim to] hate idols, [but] do you rob [their] temples? [Note: It is difficult to determine how the Jews were doing this. Perhaps they were guilty of the “spirit” of idolatry by devoting their efforts and affections to material things instead of to God].

1 Corinthians 10:32

Do not [do what could] cause Jews, Greeks [i.e., Gentiles] or the church of God to fall [away from God].

2 Corinthians 6:3

[We try] not to place an obstacle in anyone’s way [i.e., to keep them from accepting the Gospel message], so that our ministry would not be blamed.