Acts 19:25
Good News Translation
So he called them all together with others whose work was like theirs and said to them, "Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this work.

New Revised Standard Version
These he gathered together, with the workers of the same trade, and said, “Men, you know that we get our wealth from this business.

Contemporary English Version
Demetrius brought together everyone who was in the same business and said: Friends, you know we make a good living at this.

New American Bible
He called a meeting of these and other workers in related crafts and said, “Men, you know well that our prosperity derives from this work.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whom he calling together with the workmen of like occupation, said: Sirs, you know that our gain is by this trade.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whom he calling together with the workmen of like occupation, said: Sirs, you know that our gain is by this trade.

ye know.

Acts 16:19 But her masters, seeing that the hope of their gain was gone, apprehending Paul and Silas, brought them into the market place to the rulers.

Hosea 4:8 They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.

Hosea 12:7,8 He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression. . . .

2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not.

Revelation 18:3,11-19 Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies. . . .

Context
The Riot in Ephesus
24For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver temples for Diana, brought no small gain to the craftsmen. 25Whom he calling together with the workmen of like occupation, said: Sirs, you know that our gain is by this trade. 26And you see and hear that this Paul, by persuasion hath drawn away a great multitude, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying: they are not gods which are made by hands.…
Cross References
Acts 16:19
But her masters, seeing that the hope of their gain was gone, apprehending Paul and Silas, brought them into the market place to the rulers.

Acts 19:24
For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver temples for Diana, brought no small gain to the craftsmen.

Acts 19:26
And you see and hear that this Paul, by persuasion hath drawn away a great multitude, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying: they are not gods which are made by hands.

Acts 19:24
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