Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Bible References

We ought

Psalm 94:7
And they say, LORD will not see, nor will the God of Jacob consider.
Psalm 106:20
Thus they changed their glory for the likeness of an ox that eats grass.
Psalm 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 40:12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 44:9
Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame.
Habakkuk 2:19
Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake, to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
Romans 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both his eternal power and divinity, for them to be without excuse.

Graven

Exodus 20:4
Thou shall not make to thee a graven image, nor any likeness [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
And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf. And they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 46:5
To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?
Jeremiah 10:4
They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.

General references

Exodus 20:4
Thou shall not make to thee a graven image, nor any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Exodus 34:17
Thou shall make thee no molten gods.
Isaiah 40:18
To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare to him?