Acts 17:29

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, since we are of the family of God, we must not consider gold or silver or precious stones, or the engravings of art and of the imagination of man, to be a representation of what is Divine.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:18

And they have cast their gods into the fire. For they were not gods, but instead were the works of men's hands, out of wood and stone. And so they destroyed them.

Psalm 106:20

He sent his word, and he healed them, and he rescued them from their utter destruction.

Exodus 20:4

You shall not make for yourself a graven image, nor a likeness of anything that is in heaven above or on earth below, nor of those things which are in the waters under the earth.

Exodus 32:4

And when he had received them, he formed these by the work of a casting furnace, and he made from these a molten calf. And they said: "These are your gods, O Israel, who led you away from the land of Egypt."

Isaiah 40:25

"And to whom would you compare me or equate me?" says the Holy One.

Acts 19:26

And you are seeing and hearing that this man Paul, by persuasion, has turned away a great multitude, not only from Ephesus, but from nearly all of Asia, saying, 'These things are not gods which have been made by hands.'