Acts 17:29

Therefore since we be the kind [or the kin] of God, we shall not deem [or guess] that (a) godly thing is like gold, and silver, either stone, either to (the) (en)graving of craft and thought of man.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

28For in him we live, and move, and be. As also some of your poets said, And we be also the kind [or the kin] of him.

30For God despiseth the times of this uncunning, and now showeth to men, that all everywhere do penance; (For God despiseth the times of this unknowing, or this ignorance, and now showeth to all, so that everyone everywhere shall repent;)

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Cross References

Exodus 32:4and when he had taken those, he formed them by work of melting, and he made of them a molten calf (or and he made a calf out of the melted gold). And they said, Israel, these be thy gods, that led thee out of the land of Egypt.

Psalms 106:20And they changed their glory; into the likeness of a calf eating hay. (And they exchanged the glory of God; for the metal likeness of a calf that eateth grass.)

Isaiah 40:12Who meted waters in a fist, and weighed (the) heavens with a span? Who weighed the heaviness of the earth with three fingers, and weighed [the] mountains in a weigh, and [the] little hills in a balance? (Who hath measured the waters with his fist, and weighed the heavens with the span of his hand? Who hath weighed the heaviness of the earth with three fingers, and weighed the mountains on a scale, and the little hills on a balance?)

Isaiah 44:9All the formers of an idol be nothing, and the most loved things of them shall not profit (anything); they be witnesses of them, that they see not, neither understand, that they be shamed (or and so let them be ashamed).

Jeremiah 10:4He made it fair with silver and gold; (and) with nails and hammers he joined it together, that it be not loosed [atwain].

Romans 1:20For the invisible things of him, that be understood, be beheld of the creature of the world (or be seen from the creation of the world), by those things that be made, yea, and the everlasting virtue of him (or and his eternal power), and the Godhead, so that they may not be excused [or they be unexcusable].

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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