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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 they say, Jah will not see,{HR}Nor will the God of Jacob consider.
⁸Consider, ye brutish among the people,{HR}And fools, when will ye be wise?
⁹He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?{HR}He that formed the eye, shall he not see? (Psa. 94:7‑9)

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Psa. 106:20• ²⁰And changed their glory{HR}For the likeness of an ox eating grass. (Psa. 106:20)

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Psa. 115:4‑8• ⁴Their idols [are] silver and gold,{HR}Work of hands of man.
⁵A mouth have they, and they speak not;{HR}Eyes have they, and they see not;
⁶Ears they have, and they hear not;{HR}A nose have they, and they smell not;
⁷They have hands, and they feel not;{HR}They have feet, and they walk not;{HR}They utter not with their throat.
⁸Like them are those making them,{HR}Every one who 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 comprehended 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] made him understand, and instructed him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
¹⁵Behold, the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the fine dust on the balance; 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; and they are counted to him less than nothing, 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 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.
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 smith [hath] tongs, and worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm; but he is hungry and his strength faileth; he drinketh no water, and is faint.
¹³The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with chalk; he fitteth it with adzes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of man, to remain in the house.
¹⁴When he heweth him down cedars, he also taketh a holm-oak and a terebinth, and he maketh one strong for himself among the trees of the forest; he planteth a mountain-ash, and the rain nourisheth [it].
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 warmeth [himself], and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the light.
¹⁷And with the residue 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 see not; [and] their hearts that they understand not.
¹⁹And none taketh it to his heart, neither [is there] knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and also have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten [it]: and with the residue 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, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
²⁰{i}But{/i} 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• ²⁰For the invisible things of him from [the] world's creation are perceived, being understood by the works, both his eternal power and Godhead, that they might be inexcusable.
²¹Because, having known God, they glorified him not as God nor were thankful, but became vain in their thoughts, and their heart void of understanding was darkened.
²²Professing to be wise, they became fools,
²³and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of winged and four-footed and creeping [creatures]. (Rom. 1:20‑23)

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Ex. 20:4• ⁴{i}Thou 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:{/i} (Ex. 20:4)

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Ex. 32:4• ⁴{i}And 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!{/i} (Ex. 32:4)

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Isa. 46:5‑6• ⁵To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
⁶Such as 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 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.
⁶Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
⁷Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? {i}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.{/i}
⁸{i}But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.{/i}
⁹{i}Silver 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.{/i}
¹⁰{i}But 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.{/i} (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".