Acts 19:36

Since these facts can't be denied, you should stay calm—don't do anything rash.

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

In Context

35After the town clerk had managed to quiet the mob down, he told them, “People of Ephesus, who doesn't know that the city of the Ephesians is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image that fell from heaven?

37You have brought these men here, but they haven't robbed any temples or blasphemed against our goddess.

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Cross References

Proverbs 25:8don't rush to take legal action, for what are you going to do in the end when your neighbor shows you're wrong and humiliates you?

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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