Acts 17:29

New American Bible - revised edition

Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:18

They gave their gods to the fire—they were not gods at all, but the work of human hands—wood and stone, they destroyed them.

Psalm 106:20

They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating bull.

Exodus 20:4

You shall not make for yourself an idol or a likeness of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth;

Exodus 32:4

He received their offering, and fashioning it with a tool, made a molten calf. Then they cried out, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

Isaiah 40:25

To whom can you liken me as an equal? says the Holy One.

Acts 19:26

As you can now see and hear, not only in Ephesus but throughout most of the province of Asia this Paul has persuaded and misled a great number of people by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.