Acts 19:36

For as much therefore as these things cannot be contradicted, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 town clerk had appeased the multitudes, he said: Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great Diana, and of Jupiter's offspring.

37For you have brought hither these men, who are neither guilty of sacrilege, nor of blasphemy against your goddess.

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Cross References

Proverbs 25:8The things which thy eyes have seen, utter not hastily in a quarrel: lest after- ward thou mayst not be able to make amends, when thou hast dishonoured thy 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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