Isaiah 40:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 46:5 : 5 Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you make with me?
  • Acts 17:29 : 29 If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.
  • 1 Sam 2:2 : 2 No other is holy as the Lord, for there is no other God but you: there is no Rock like our God.
  • Isa 40:25 : 25 Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.
  • Exod 8:10 : 10 And he said, By tomorrow. And he said, Let it be as you say: so that you may see that there is no other like the Lord our God.
  • Exod 9:14 : 14 For this time I will send all my punishments on yourself and on your servants and on your people; so that you may see that there is no other like me in all the earth.
  • Exod 15:11 : 11 Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders?
  • Exod 20:4 : 4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
  • Deut 33:26 : 26 No other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the heavens to your help, and letting his glory be seen in the skies.
  • Job 40:9 : 9 Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.
  • Ps 86:8-9 : 8 There is no god like you, O Lord; there are no works like your works. 9 Let all the nations whom you have made come and give worship to you, O Lord, giving glory to your name. 10 For you are great, and do great works of wonder; you only are God.
  • Ps 89:6 : 6 For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?
  • Ps 89:8 : 8 O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you.
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.
  • Col 1:15 : 15 Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;
  • Isa 46:9 : 9 Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me;
  • Jer 10:6 : 6 There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power.
  • Jer 10:16 : 16 The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.
  • Ps 113:5 : 5 Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 46:5-6
    2 verses
    84%

    5 Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you make with me?

    6 As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

  • Isa 40:25
    83%

    25 Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.

  • Isa 44:9-10
    2 verses
    82%

    9 Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

    10 Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.

  • Isa 40:17
    81%

    17 All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.

  • Isa 40:19-21
    3 verses
    81%

    19 The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

    20 The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.

    21 Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?

  • Jer 16:20
    77%

    20 Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?

  • Ps 135:18
    75%

    18 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.

  • Ps 115:4
    75%

    4 Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18 What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?

    19 A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.

  • Isa 41:24
    74%

    24 But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.

  • Jer 51:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17 Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

    18 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • Job 40:9
    74%

    9 Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

  • Ps 135:15
    73%

    15 The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Ps 115:8
    73%

    8 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

  • Exod 20:4
    73%

    4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14 Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

    15 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • Ps 89:6
    73%

    6 For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?

  • Isa 44:17
    73%

    17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.

  • Ps 86:8
    72%

    8 There is no god like you, O Lord; there are no works like your works.

  • Deut 4:16
    72%

    16 So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

  • Isa 40:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12 In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

    13 By whom has the spirit of the Lord been guided, or who has been his teacher?

  • Job 4:17
    72%

    17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

  • Isa 41:29
    72%

    29 Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.

  • Deut 5:8
    72%

    8 You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Rom 9:20
    72%

    20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

  • 1 Chr 17:20
    72%

    20 O Lord, there is no one like you, and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears.

  • Ps 97:7
    71%

    7 Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods.

  • Isa 17:8
    71%

    8 He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.

  • Ps 18:31
    71%

    31 For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?

  • Ps 113:5
    71%

    5 Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,

  • Isa 37:19
    71%

    19 And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

  • Ezek 20:32
    71%

    32 And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;

  • Jer 10:6
    71%

    6 There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power.

  • Isa 45:20
    71%

    20 Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    71%

    18 And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

  • Isa 42:17
    71%

    17 They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.

  • Jer 10:8
    71%

    8 But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

  • Isa 29:16
    71%

    16 You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

    28 There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

  • Isa 45:9
    71%

    9 Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

  • Lev 26:1
    70%

    1 Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.

  • Exod 15:11
    70%

    11 Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders?