Jeremiah 16:20
Howe can a man make those his gods, which are not able to be gods?
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- Isa 37:19 : 19 And cast their gods in the fire: for those were no gods, but the workes of mens handes, of wood or stone, therfore haue they destroyed them.
- Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are siluer and gold: euen the workes of mens handes. 5 They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes and see not. 6 They haue eares and heare not: they haue noses and smell not. 7 They haue handes and handle not, they haue feete and walke not: and they vtter no sounde out of their throtes. 8 They that make them are lyke vnto them: euery one that putteth his trust in them.
- Gal 4:8 : 8 Notwithstandyng, when ye knewe not God, ye dyd seruice vnto the which by nature are no Gods.
- Jer 2:11 : 11 Whether the gentiles them selues haue chaunged their gods which yet are no gods in deede? but my people hath chaunged their honour for a thyng that may not helpe them.
- Hos 8:4-6 : 4 They haue ordeyned kinges, but not through me, they haue made princes, and I knewe it not: of their siluer and golde haue they made them idols, therfore shall they be destroyed. 5 Thy Calfe O Samaria hath cast thee of, for my wrathfull indignation is gone foorth agaynst them: howe long wyll they be without innocencie? 6 For the calfe came from Israel, the workman made it, therfore can it be no God: but euen in peeces shall the calfe of Samaria be broken.
- Acts 19:26 : 26 Moreouer, ye see and heare, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath perswaded and turned away much people, saying that they be not gods which are made with handes.
- Gal 1:8 : 8 Neuerthelesse, though we, or an Angel from heauen, preache any other Gospel vnto you, then that which we haue preached vnto you, let hym be accursed.
- Ps 135:14-18 : 14 For God wyll iudge his people: and he will be pacified beyng displeased with his seruauntes. 15 As for the idols of the Heathen they are but siluer and golde: the worke of mens handes. 16 They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes but they see not. 17 They haue eares and they heare not: yea there is no breath in their mouth. 18 They that make them are lyke vnto them: and euery one that putteth his trust in them.
- Isa 36:19 : 19 Where is the god of Hemath and Arphad? where is the god of Sepharuaim? and who is able to defende Samaria out of my hande?
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9 All caruers of images are but vayne, and the carued images that they loue can do no good: they must beare recorde them selues, that seeing they can neither see nor vnderstande, they shalbe confounded.
10 Who dare then make a god, or fashion an image that is profitable for nothing?
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18 To whom then wyll ye lyken God? or what similitude will ye set vp to him?
19 Shall the caruer make hym a carued image? and shall the goldesmith couer hym with golde, or cast hym into a fourme of siluer plates?
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26 For all the gods of the people are but idoles: but the Lorde made heauen.
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11 Whether the gentiles them selues haue chaunged their gods which yet are no gods in deede? but my people hath chaunged their honour for a thyng that may not helpe them.
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23 Ye shall not make therfore with me gods of siluer, neyther shall ye make ye gods of golde.
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19 And cast their gods in the fire: for those were no gods, but the workes of mens handes, of wood or stone, therfore haue they destroyed them.
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17 Thou shalt make thee no gods of mettall.
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18 And haue set fire on their gods: For they were no gods, but the worke of the handes of man, euen of wood and stone: and they destroyed them.
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18 They that make them are lyke vnto them: and euery one that putteth his trust in them.
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28 I shall aunswere them Where are nowe thy gods that thou hast made thee? bid them stande vp, and helpe thee in the time of thy neede: For loke howe many cities thou hast O Iuda, so many gods hast thou also.
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8 They that make them are lyke vnto them: euery one that putteth his trust in them.
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17 And of the residue he maketh hym a god, and grauen image for him selfe: he kneeleth before it, he worshippeth it, he prayeth vnto it, and saith, Deliuer me, for thou art my god.
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15 As for the idols of the Heathen they are but siluer and golde: the worke of mens handes.
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37 And he shall say: Where are their gods, their god in whom they trusted?
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11 As for their gods thus shall you say to them, they are no gods that made neither heauen nor earth, therfore shall they perishe from the earth, and from all thinges vnder heauen.
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32 And that which commeth into your mynde shall not be at all, which you say, We wyll be as the gentiles, as the kinredes of countreis, to serue wood and stone.
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28 And there ye shall serue gods which are the worke of mans hande, wood and stone, which neither see, nor heare, nor eate, nor smell.
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17 If they be esteemed by their wisdome, all men are become fooles: confounded be all the casters of images, for the thing that they make, is but deceipt, and hath no breath.
18 Uayne is it and an erronious worke, and in the tyme of visitation it shall perishe.
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4 Their idols are siluer and gold: euen the workes of mens handes.
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16 Confounded are they all and put to dishonour, thei are gone hence together with shame, euen the makers of images.
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19 O Lorde my strength, my power and refuge in tyme of trouble: the gentiles shall come vnto thee from the endes of the worlde, and say, Ueryly our fathers haue cleaued vnto lyes, their idols are but vayne and vnprofitable.
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16 Doubtlesse your destruction is in reputation as the potters clay: And doth the worke say of hym that made it, he made not me? And doth an earthen vessell say of hym that fashioned it, he had no vnderstanding?
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20 But O man, what art thou which disputest with God? Shall the worke say to the workeman, why hast thou made me on this fashion?
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8 Their lande also is full of vayne gods, and before the worke of their owne handes they haue bowed them selues, yea euen before the thyng that their owne fingers haue made.
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18 What profiteth the image? for the maker therof hath made it an image and a teacher of lyes, though he that made it trust therin when he maketh dumbe idoles.
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4 Ye shal not looke vnto idols, nor make you moulten goddes: I am the Lorde your God.
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20 Gather you and come together, drawe nigh hither you that escaped of the people: they haue no vnderstanding that set vp the stockes of their idols, and pray vnto a god that can not helpe them.
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5 As for all the gods of the heathen they be but idoles: and it is God that made the heauens.
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14 His wisdome maketh all men fooles, and confounded be casters of images: for that they cast, is but a vayne thing, and hath no life.
15 The vayne craftesmen with their workes that they in their vanitie haue made, shall perishe one with another in time of visitation.
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17 They are fallen backe, yea and let them be ashamed earnestly that hope in idols, and say to the moulten images, ye are our gods.
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23 For they sayde vnto me: Make vs goddes to go before vs, for we wote not what is become of Moyses, the man that brought vs out of ye land of Egypt.
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3 Thou shalt haue none other Gods in my sight.
4 Thou shalt make thee no grauen image, neyther any similitude that is in heauen aboue, eyther in the earth beneath, or in the waters vnder the earth.
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8 As for the aulters which are his owne handy worke he shal not regarde them, and the thynges that his fingers hath made, as groues and images, those shal he not cast his eye vnto.
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21 And therfore I wyll once teach them, saith the Lorde, I wyll shewe them my hande and my power, and they shall knowe that my name is the Lorde.
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9 If thou wylt hearken vnto me, there shall be no straunge God in thee: neither shalt thou geue worship to any other Lorde beside me.
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19 And they spake against the God of Hierusalem, as against the gods of the nations of the earth, whiche were the workes of the handes of men.
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1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graue image, neither reare you vp any piller, neither shall ye set vp any image of stone in your lande to bowe downe vnto it: for I am the Lorde your God.
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6 For the calfe came from Israel, the workman made it, therfore can it be no God: but euen in peeces shall the calfe of Samaria be broken.
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15 Which wood serueth for men to burne: Of this he taketh and warmeth hym selfe withall, he maketh a fire of it to bakebread, and maketh also a god therof to honour it, and a grauen image to kneele before it.
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26 For they went and serued straunge gods, and worshipped them, gods which they knewe not, and which had geuen them nothyng.
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6 Take out siluer and gold out of your purses, and way it, and hyre a goldesmith to make a god of it, that men may kneele downe and worship it:
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17 Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be purer then his maker?
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4 They haue ordeyned kinges, but not through me, they haue made princes, and I knewe it not: of their siluer and golde haue they made them idols, therfore shall they be destroyed.
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3 Thou sonne of man, these men haue set vp their idols in their heartes, and put the stumbling blocke of iniquitie before their face: shoulde I then aunswere them at their request?