Acts 19:25

Contemporary English Version 1995

Demetrius brought together everyone who was in the same business and said: Friends, you know we make a good living at this.

Cross References

Acts 16:19

When the girl's owners realized they had lost all chances for making more money, they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them into court.

Revelation 18:3

Babylon's evil and immoral wine has made all nations drunk. Every king on earth has slept with her, and every merchant on earth is rich because of her evil desires.”

2 Peter 2:3

They will be greedy and cheat you with smooth talk. But long ago God decided to punish them, and God doesn't sleep.

Hosea 4:8

You encourage others to sin, so you can stuff yourselves on their sin offerings.

Acts 19:24

A silversmith named Demetrius had a business that made silver models of the temple of the goddess Artemis. Those who worked for him earned a lot of money.

Acts 19:26

But you have surely seen and heard how this man Paul is upsetting a lot of people, not only in Ephesus, but almost everywhere in Asia. He claims that the gods we humans make are not really gods at all.