Psalm 96:5

New International Reader's Version

All the gods of the nations are like their statues. They can’t do anything. But the Lord made the heavens.

Cross References

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Psalm 115:15

May the Lord bless you. He is the Maker of heaven and earth.

Psalm 135:15

The statues of the nations’ gods are made out of silver and gold. They are made by human hands.

Psalm 135:18

Those who make statues of gods will be like them. So will all those who trust in them.

Psalm 8:4

What are human beings that you think about them? What is a son of man that you take care of him?

Isaiah 41:29

So they are not really gods at all. What they do does not amount to anything. They are as useless as wind.

Isaiah 42:5

God created the heavens and stretches them out. The Lord spreads out the earth with everything that grows on it. He gives breath to its people. He gives life to those who walk on it. He says to his servant,

Acts 19:26

You have seen and heard what this fellow Paul is doing. He has talked to large numbers of people here in Ephesus. Almost everywhere in Asia Minor he has led people away from our gods. He says that the gods made by human hands are not gods at all.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So then, here is what I say about eating food sacrificed to statues of gods. We know that “a god made by human hands is really nothing at all in the world.” We know that “there is only one God.”