Acts 17:29

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:18

and have hurled their gods into the fire, though they were no gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone—and so they were destroyed.

Psalm 106:20

They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.

Exodus 20:4

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.

Exodus 32:4

He took these from them, formed them in a mold, and cast an image of a calf, and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Isaiah 40:25

To whom, then, will you compare me, or who is my equal? says the Holy One.

Acts 19:26

You also see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost the whole of Asia this Paul has persuaded and drawn away a considerable number of people by saying that gods made with hands are not gods.