Acts 17:29

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:18

And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

Psalm 106:20

And their glory was changed into the image of an ox, whose food is grass.

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 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.

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: