Acts 17:29

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.

We ought

Romans 1:20

Graven

General references

Exodus 20:4

Exodus 34:17

Isaiah 40:18

Bible References

We ought

And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.

And their glory was changed into the image of an ox, whose food is grass.

Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.

For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

Graven

You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you make with me?

They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.

General references

You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?