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Acts 19:26

Bible in Basic English 1965

And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:

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This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.

The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.

Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.

And they came down to Ephesus and he left them there: and he himself went into the Synagogue and had a discussion with the Jews.

And it came about that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having gone through the higher country, came to Ephesus, where there were certain disciples:

And this went on for two years, so that all those who were living in Asia had knowledge of the word of the Lord, Greeks as well as Jews.

Whom he got together, with other workmen of the same trade, and said to them, Men, it is clear that from this business we get our wealth.

You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.

So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:




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