Acts 19:37

World English Bible (2000)

For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 2:22 : 22 You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
  • 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
  • 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
  • Acts 25:8 : 8 while he said in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all."

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  • Acts 19:38-40
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    38If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.

    39But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.

    40For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn't be able to give an account of this commotion."

  • Acts 19:32-36
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    32Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together.

    33They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people.

    34But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

    35When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn't know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

    36Seeing then that these things can't be denied, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rash.

  • Acts 19:23-29
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    23About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.

    24For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

    25whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, "Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.

    26You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.

    27Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships."

    28When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

    29The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel.

  • Acts 18:13
    73%

    13saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

  • Acts 17:18-23
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    18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

    19They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

    20For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."

    21Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

    22Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

    23For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.

  • Acts 16:19-21
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    19But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

    20When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,

    21and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."

  • Acts 21:28-29
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    28crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"

    29For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

  • Acts 24:18-20
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    18amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

    19They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

    20Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,

  • Acts 28:21-22
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    21They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.

    22But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."

  • Acts 6:12-13
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    12They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,

    13and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

  • Acts 17:5-8
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    5But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

    6When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

    7whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!"

    8The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

  • Acts 14:12-13
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    12They called Barnabas "Jupiter," and Paul "Mercury," because he was the chief speaker.

    13The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.

  • Acts 14:15
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    15"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

  • Acts 24:12-13
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    12In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.

    13Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

  • Acts 14:18
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    18Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

  • Acts 5:38-39
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    69%

    38Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

    39But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!"

  • Acts 5:27
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    27When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,

  • Acts 24:6
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    6He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.

  • Acts 16:39
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    39and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

  • Acts 4:16
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    16saying, "What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can't deny it.