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.
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Bible References
We ought
Psalm 94:7
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
Psalm 106:20
Thus they changed their glory into the image 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 measured out heaven with the span, and known the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 44:9
They that make a graven image are all of them nothing; and their precious things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Habakkuk 2:19
Woe unto him that says to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.
Romans 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and deity; so that they are without excuse:
Graven
Exodus 20:4
You shall not make unto yourself any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exodus 32:4
And he received them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 46:5
To whom will you 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 moves not.
General references
Exodus 20:4
You shall not make unto yourself any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exodus 34:17
You shall make you no molten gods.
Isaiah 40:18
To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare unto him?