Jeremiah 16:20

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Can people make their own gods? Such gods are not gods at all!

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  • Isa 37:19 : 19 They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
  • Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 5 They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see. 6 They have ears but cannot hear, noses but cannot smell. 7 They have hands but cannot touch, feet but cannot walk, nor can they make a sound with their throats. 8 Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
  • Gal 4:8 : 8 But in the past, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those who by nature are not gods.
  • Jer 2:11 : 11 Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glory for worthless idols.
  • Hos 8:4-6 : 4 They set up kings, but not by me; they appointed leaders, but I did not know of it. With their silver and gold, they made idols for themselves, to their own destruction. 5 Your calf idol is rejected, Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be unable to attain innocence? 6 This calf comes from Israel! A craftsman made it; it is not God. It will be shattered into pieces—this calf of Samaria.
  • Acts 19:26 : 26 You see and hear that not only in Ephesus but almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great number of people by saying that gods made by hands are not really gods.
  • Gal 1:8 : 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed!
  • Ps 135:14-18 : 14 For the LORD will judge His people and have compassion on His servants. 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 16 They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see. 17 They have ears but cannot hear; there is no breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will become like them; so will all who trust in them.
  • Isa 36:19 : 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

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    9All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses see nothing and know nothing, so they will be put to shame.

    10Who fashions a god or casts an idol that can profit nothing?

  • Isa 40:18-19
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    18To whom, then, will you compare God? What image can you find to resemble Him?

    19As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.

  • 1 Chr 16:26
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    26For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

  • Jer 2:11
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    11Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glory for worthless idols.

  • Exod 20:23
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    23You shall not make gods of silver to be alongside Me, nor shall you make gods of gold for yourselves.

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    19They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

  • Exod 34:17
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    17Do not make any molten gods for yourselves.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
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    18They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but merely the work of human hands—wood and stone.

  • Ps 135:18
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    18Those who make them will become like them; so will all who trust in them.

  • Jer 2:28
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    28But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise and save you in your time of trouble, if they can. For as many as your cities are your gods, Judah.

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    8Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

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    17From the rest he makes a god, his idol, and bows down to it. He worships it and prays to it, saying, 'Save me, for you are my god.'

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    15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

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    37And He will say: 'Where are their gods? The rock they sought refuge in?

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    11Tell them this: 'The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.'

  • Ezek 20:32
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    32What you have in mind will never happen. You say, 'We will be like the nations, like the peoples of the world, who serve wood and stone.'

  • Deut 4:28
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    28There you will serve gods made by human hands—objects of wood and stone that cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

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    17Every human is senseless, lacking knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

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    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

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    19LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of trouble! Nations will come to You from the ends of the earth and say, 'Our ancestors inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols that do not profit at all.'

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    5For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

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    14Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by their idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.

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    17They will be turned back; they will be utterly ashamed—those who trust in carved idols and say to molten images, 'You are our gods.'

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    23They said to me, 'Make gods for us who will go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.'

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    3You shall have no other gods before Me.

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    19They spoke about the God of Jerusalem as they did about the gods of the peoples of the earth—products of human hands.

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    1Do not make idols for yourselves, or set up a carved image or a sacred pillar for yourselves, and do not place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.

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    6This calf comes from Israel! A craftsman made it; it is not God. It will be shattered into pieces—this calf of Samaria.

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    3Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and placed the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I really let myself be consulted by them?