Acts 17:29

Modern English Version

“Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Deity is like gold or silver or stone or an engraved work of art or an image of the reflection of man.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:18

and have put their gods in the fire, for they were no gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; thus they have been destroyed.

Psalm 106:20

Thus they exchanged their glory for the image of an ox that eats grass.

Exodus 20:4

You shall not make for yourself any graven idol, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water below the earth.

Exodus 32:4

He received them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into a molded calf. Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

Isaiah 40:25

To whom then will you liken Me, that I should be equal to him? says the Holy One.

Acts 19:26

And you see and hear, not only at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, that this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that these things made by hands are not gods.