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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Act 17:29 — 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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Psa 94:7 |
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard [it]. |
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Psa 94:8 |
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise? |
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Psa 94:9 |
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? |
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Psa 106:20 |
Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. |
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Psa 115:4 |
Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands. |
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Psa 115:5 |
They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: |
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Psa 115:6 |
They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: |
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Psa 115:7 |
They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. |
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Psa 115:8 |
They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them. |
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Isa 40:12 |
Who hath 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? |
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Isa 40:13 |
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] his counsellor hath taught him? |
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Isa 40:14 |
With whom took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? |
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Isa 40:15 |
Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. |
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Isa 40:16 |
And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. |
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Isa 40:17 |
All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. |
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Isa 40:18 |
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? |
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Isa 44:9 |
They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. |
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Isa 44:10 |
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing? |
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Isa 44:11 |
Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they [are] of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; [yet] they shall fear, [and] they shall be ashamed together. |
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Isa 44:12 |
The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. |
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Isa 44:13 |
The carpenter stretcheth out [his] rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. |
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Hab 2:19 |
Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all in the midst of it. |
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Hab 2:20 |
But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. |
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Rom 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 Godhead; so that they are without excuse: |
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Rom 1:21 |
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. |
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Rom 1:22 |
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, |
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Rom 1:23 |
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. |
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Exd 20:4 |
Thou shalt not make unto thee 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: |
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Exd 32:4 |
And he received [them] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. |
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Isa 46:5 |
To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and compare me, that we may be like? |
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Isa 46:6 |
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, [and] hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. |
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Jer 10:4 |
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. |
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Jer 10:5 |
They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good. |
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Jer 10:6 |
Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might. |
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Jer 10:7 |
Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto thee. |
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Jer 10:8 |
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities. |
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Jer 10:9 |
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men]. |
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Jer 10:10 |
But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Acts 17:29," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Act/17/29.html>.
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