Acts 19:36

Therefore, since these things are not able to be contradicted, it is necessary for you to be calm and to do nothing rash.

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In The King James Version

Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.

In Context

35And when the scribe had calmed the crowds, he said: “Men of Ephesus, now what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is in the service of the great Diana and of the offspring of Jupiter?

37For you have brought forward these men, who are neither sacrilegious nor blasphemers against your goddess.

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Cross References

Proverbs 25:8The things that your eyes have seen, do not offer hastily in a quarrel, lest afterward you may not be able to make amends, when you have dishonored your friend.

Matthew Henry on Acts 19:22-41

The Tumult at Ephesus. 21 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. 22 So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season. 23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way. 24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain… Read the whole commentary →

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