Acts 19:26

New American Bible - revised edition

As you can now see and hear, not only in Ephesus but throughout most of the province of Asia this Paul has persuaded and misled a great number of people by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.

Cross References

Jeremiah 10:11

Thus shall you say of them: The gods that did not make heaven and earth—let these perish from earth and from beneath heaven!

Hosea 8:6

An artisan made it, it is no god at all. The calf of Samaria will be dashed to pieces.

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing this? We are of the same nature as you, human beings. We proclaim to you good news that you should turn from these idols to the living God, ‘who made heaven and earth and sea and all that is in them.’

Acts 17:29

Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.

Acts 18:19

When they reached Ephesus, he left them there, while he entered the synagogue and held discussions with the Jews.

Acts 19:1

While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior of the country and came [down] to Ephesus where he found some disciples.

Acts 19:10

This continued for two years with the result that all the inhabitants of the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord, Jews and Greeks alike.

Acts 19:25

He called a meeting of these and other workers in related crafts and said, “Men, you know well that our prosperity derives from this work.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know how, when you were pagans, you were constantly attracted and led away to mute idols.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So about the eating of meat sacrificed to idols: we know that “there is no idol in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Galatians 4:8

At a time when you did not know God, you became slaves to things that by nature are not gods;

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you shall serve gods that are works of human hands, of wood and stone, gods which can neither see nor hear, neither eat nor smell.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves openly declare about us what sort of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

Revelation 9:20

The rest of the human race, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, to give up the worship of demons and idols made from gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.