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Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought notk to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.

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Isa. 40:18• ¹⁸To whom then will ye liken *God? and what likeness will ye compare unto him? (Isa. 40:18)

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Psa. 94:7‑9• ⁷And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard it.
⁸Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
⁹He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see? (Psa. 94:7‑9)

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Psa. 106:20• ²⁰And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. (Psa. 106:20)

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Psa. 115:4‑8• ⁴Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands:
⁵They have a mouth, and they speak not; eyes have they, and they see not;
⁶They have ears, and they hear not; a nose have they, and they smell not;
⁷They have hands, and they handle not; feet have they, and they walk not; they give no sound through their throat.
⁸They that make them are like unto them,--every one that confideth in them. (Psa. 115:4‑8)

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Isa. 40:12‑18• ¹²Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with his span, and grasped the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?
¹³Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, and, as his counsellor, hath taught him?
¹⁴With whom took he counsel, and who gave him intelligence, and instructed him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?
¹⁵Behold, the nations are esteemed as a drop of the bucket, and as the fine dust on the scales; behold, he taketh up the isles as an atom.
¹⁶And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.
¹⁷All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.
¹⁸To whom then will ye liken *God? and what likeness will ye compare unto him? (Isa. 40:12‑18)

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Isa. 44:9‑20• ⁹They that form a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor know;--that they may be ashamed.
¹⁰Who hath formed a *god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
¹¹Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed; and the workmen are but men. Let them all be gathered together, let them stand up: they shall fear, they shall be ashamed together.
¹²The iron-smith hath a chisel, and he worketh in the coals, and he fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm;--but he is hungry, and his strength faileth; he hath not drunk water, and he is faint.
¹³The worker in wood stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with red chalk; he formeth it with sharp tools, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of man: that it may remain in the house.
¹⁴When he heweth him down cedars, he taketh also a holm-oak and a terebinth--he chooseth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth a pine, and the rain maketh it grow.
¹⁵And it shall be for a man to burn, and he taketh thereof, and warmeth himself; he kindleth it also, and baketh bread; he maketh also a *god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
¹⁶He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh, he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he is warm, and saith, Aha, I am become warm, I have seen the fire.
¹⁷And with the remainder thereof he maketh a *god, his graven image; he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me, for thou art my *god.
¹⁸They have no knowledge, and understand not; for he hath plastered their eyes, that they may not see; and their hearts, that they may not understand.
¹⁹And none taketh it to heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and have also baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh, and eaten it, and with the rest thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood?
²⁰He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? (Isa. 44:9‑20)

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Hab. 2:19‑20• ¹⁹Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake! to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall it teach? Behold it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
²⁰But Jehovah is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him! (Hab. 2:19‑20)

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Rom. 1:20‑23• ²⁰--for from the world's creation the invisible things of him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity,--so as to render them inexcusable.
²¹Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:
²²professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
²³and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles. (Rom. 1:20‑23)

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Ex. 20:4• ⁴Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image, or any form of what is in the heavens above, or what is in the earth beneath, or what is in the waters under the earth: (Ex. 20:4)

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Ex. 32:4• ⁴And he took them out of their hand, and fashioned it with a chisel and made of it a molten calf: and they said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt! (Ex. 32:4)

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Isa. 46:5‑6• ⁵To whom will ye liken me and make me equal, or compare me, that we may be like?
⁶--They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance; they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a *god: they fall down, yea, they worship. (Isa. 46:5‑6)

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Jer. 10:4‑10• ⁴they deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
⁵They are as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
⁶There is none like unto thee, Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
⁷Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? For to thee doth it appertain; for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
⁸But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.
⁹Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artizan and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skilful men.
¹⁰But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the living God, and the King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations cannot abide his indignation. (Jer. 10:4‑10)

• A lifeless stock that man forms cannot be, or duly represent, the God that made him and all things. (“Acts 17:16-34” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man’s art and imagination.

W. Kelly Translation

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Being therefore God’s off-spring, we ought not to think that the divinitya is like gold, or silver or stone, graven by art and device of man.

WK Translation Notes

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"Theios," the divine, or what is divine, should not be confounded with "Theiotes" or still less "Theotes".