Acts 19:26

New Century Version

But look at what this man Paul is doing. He has convinced and turned away many people in Ephesus and in almost all of Asia! He says the gods made by human hands are not real.

Cross References

Jeremiah 10:11

“Tell them this message: ‘These gods did not make heaven and earth; they will be destroyed and disappear from heaven and earth.’ ”

Hosea 8:6

The idol is something a craftsman made; it is not God. Israel’s calf-shaped idol will surely be smashed to pieces.

Acts 14:15

“Friends, why are you doing these things? We are only human beings like you. We are bringing you the Good News and are telling you to turn away from these worthless things and turn to the living God. He is the One who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.

Acts 17:29

Since we are God’s children, you must not think that God is like something that people imagine or make from gold, silver, or rock.

Acts 18:19

Then they went to Ephesus, where Paul left Priscilla and Aquila. While Paul was there, he went into the synagogue and talked with the people.

Acts 19:1

While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul was visiting some places on the way to Ephesus. There he found some followers

Acts 19:10

for two years. Because of his work, every Jew and Greek in Asia heard the word of the Lord.

Acts 19:25

Demetrius had a meeting with them and some others who did the same kind of work. He told them, “Men, you know that we make a lot of money from our business.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know the way you lived before you were believers. You let yourselves be influenced and led away to worship idols—things that could not speak.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So this is what I say about eating meat sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is really nothing in the world, and we know there is only one God.

Galatians 4:8

In the past you did not know God. You were slaves to gods that were not real.

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you will worship gods made by people, gods made of wood and stone, that cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

People everywhere are telling about the way you accepted us when we were there with you. They tell how you stopped worshiping idols and began serving the living and true God.

Revelation 9:20

The other people who were not killed by these terrible disasters still did not change their hearts and turn away from what they had made with their own hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—things that cannot see or hear or walk.