Acts 17:29

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

28'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'

30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

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Cross References

Exodus 32:4He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

Psalms 106:20Thus they exchanged their gloryfor an image of a bull that eats grass.

Isaiah 40:12Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of his hand,and marked off the sky with his span,and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure,and weighed the mountains in scales,and the hills in a balance?

Isaiah 44:9Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain.The things that they delight in will not profit.Their own witnesses do not see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

Jeremiah 10:4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.

Romans 1:20For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divine nature; that they may be without excuse.

Matthew Henry on Acts 17:23-32

Paul at Athens. 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. 23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. 24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed… Read the whole commentary →

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