Acts 17:29
If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.
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Acts 17:29
If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.
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Acts 17:23
For when I came by, I was looking at the things to which you give worship, and I saw an altar with this writing on it, TO THE GOD OF WHOM THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE. Now, what you, without knowledge, give worship to, I make clear to you.
Acts 17:24
The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;
Acts 17:25
And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;
Acts 17:26
And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,
Acts 17:27
So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:
Acts 17:28
For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.
Acts 17:29
If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.
Acts 17:30
Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:
Acts 17:31
Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.
Acts 14:16
Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.
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Jeremiah 10:4
They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.
Jeremiah 10:5
It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.
Romans 1:23
And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.
Daniel 5:23
But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;
Psalms 115:4
Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Jeremiah 51:17
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
Deuteronomy 4:28
There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.
Isaiah 40:20
The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.
Isaiah 45:20
Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.
Isaiah 46:6
As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.
Isaiah 44:13
The woodworker is measuring out the wood with his line, marking it out with his pencil: after smoothing it with his plane, and making circles on it with his instrument, he gives it the form and glory of a man, so that it may be placed in the house.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
Jeremiah 10:9
Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.
Jeremiah 10:10
But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.
Isaiah 44:10
Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.
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Isaiah 40:18
Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?
Isaiah 46:5
Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you make with me?
Exodus 32:4
And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 40:25
Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.
Isaiah 40:26
Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.
Jeremiah 10:6
There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power.
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Exodus 20:4
You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
Exodus 20:5
You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
Deuteronomy 4:15
So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:
Deuteronomy 4:16
So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,
Deuteronomy 4:17
Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air,
Deuteronomy 4:18
Or of anything which goes flat on the earth, or any fish in the water under the earth.
Deuteronomy 5:8
You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:
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Jeremiah 10:15
They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
Jeremiah 50:38
A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?
1 Corinthians 8:4
So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
1 Corinthians 10:19
Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?
1 Corinthians 12:2
You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.
Romans 1:22
Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,
Acts 19:26
And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:
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Acts 14:18
And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.
Acts 14:15
Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:
Romans 1:20
For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
John 4:24
God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.
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Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;
Genesis 9:6
Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
1 Corinthians 11:7
For it is not right for a man to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
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Psalms 135:15
The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalms 135:16
They have mouths, but no voice, they have eyes, but they do not see;
Psalms 135:17
They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.
Psalms 135:18
Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.
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Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
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Colossians 1:15
Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;
Hebrews 1:3
Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;
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Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.
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2 Peter 1:3
Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;
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Revelation 13:16
And he gives to all, small and great, the poor and those who have wealth, the free and those who are not free, a mark on their right hand or on their brows;
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