Jeremiah 16:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Can mortals make for themselves gods? Such are no gods!”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Can a man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!

American Standard Version (1901)

Shall a man make unto himself gods, which yet are no gods?

Common English Bible

Can humans make their own gods? If so, they are not gods at all!

Catholic Public Domain Version

How can man make gods for himself, though these are not gods?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Shall a man make gods unto himself, and there are no gods?

Jeremiah 16:20 Cross References

2 Kings 19:18

and have hurled their gods into the fire, though they were no gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone—and so they were destroyed.

Isaiah 36:19

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

Isaiah 37:19

and have hurled their gods into the fire, though they were no gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone—and so they were destroyed.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for something that does not profit.

Jeremiah 5:7

How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of prostitutes.

Daniel 3:1

King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue whose height was sixty cubits and whose width was six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

Acts 19:26

You also see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost the whole of Asia this Paul has persuaded and drawn away a considerable number of people by saying that gods made with hands are not gods.

Galatians 1:8

But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that one be accursed!

Galatians 4:8

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods.