Jeremiah 16:20
Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”
BSB
ASV
Shall a man make unto himself gods, which yet are no gods?
KJV
Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
Shall a man make gods unto himself? - Can any be so silly, and so preposterously absurd? Yes, fallen man is capable of any thing that is base, mean, vile, and wicked, till influenced and converted by the grace of Christ.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Galatians 4:8Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
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So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
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Acts 19:26And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made…
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Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
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Isaiah 36:19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
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Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.