Isaiah 40:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

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  • Isa 46:5 : 5 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?
  • Acts 17:29 : 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and man's design.
  • 1 Sam 2:2 : 2 There is none holy like the LORD; for there is none besides you; neither is there any rock like our God.
  • Isa 40:25 : 25 To whom then will you liken me, or to whom shall I be equal? says the Holy One.
  • Exod 8:10 : 10 And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, Be it according to your word: that you may know that there is none like the LORD our God.
  • Exod 9:14 : 14 For at this time I will send all my plagues upon your heart, upon your servants, and upon your people; that you may know there is none like me in all the earth.
  • Exod 15:11 : 11 Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
  • Exod 20:4 : 4 You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
  • Deut 33:26 : 26 There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides upon the heavens to help you, and in his majesty on the sky.
  • Job 40:9 : 9 Do you have an arm like God, or can you thunder with a voice like him?
  • Ps 86:8-9 : 8 Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord, nor are there any works like Your works. 9 All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name. 10 For You are great and do wondrous things; You alone are God.
  • Ps 89:6 : 6 For who in the heavens can be compared to the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD?
  • Ps 89:8 : 8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like you? Or to your faithfulness around you?
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in mercy.
  • Col 1:15 : 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 Who being the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
  • Isa 46:9 : 9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
  • Jer 10:6 : 6 There is none like you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might.
  • Jer 10:16 : 16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the Maker of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
  • Ps 113:5 : 5 Who is like the LORD our God, who dwells on high,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 46:5-6
    2 verses
    84%

    5To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?

    6They pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver on the scales, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.

  • Isa 40:25
    83%

    25To whom then will you liken me, or to whom shall I be equal? says the Holy One.

  • Isa 44:9-10
    2 verses
    82%

    9Those who make a carved image are all of them vanity; and their delightful things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

    10Who has formed a god, or cast a carved image that is profitable for nothing?

  • Isa 40:17
    81%

    17All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

  • Isa 40:19-21
    3 verses
    81%

    19The workman molds a graven image, the goldsmith covers it with gold and casts silver chains.

    20He who is so impoverished that he has no offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks for himself a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not be moved.

    21Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

  • Jer 16:20
    77%

    20Shall a man make gods for himself, which are not gods?

  • Ps 135:18
    75%

    18Those who make them are like them: so is everyone that trusts in them.

  • Ps 115:4
    75%

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

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18What profit is the carved image that its maker has carved it; the molded image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make mute idols?

    19Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake; to the mute stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.

  • Isa 41:24
    74%

    24Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooses you.

  • Jer 51:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17Every man is senseless by his knowledge; every craftsman is put to shame by the graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

    18They are vanity, the work of errors; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • Job 40:9
    74%

    9Do you have an arm like God, or can you thunder with a voice like him?

  • Ps 135:15
    73%

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

  • Ps 115:8
    73%

    8Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.

  • Exod 20:4
    73%

    4You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is humiliated by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

    15They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation, they shall perish.

  • Ps 89:6
    73%

    6For who in the heavens can be compared to the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD?

  • Isa 44:17
    73%

    17And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his carved image: he falls down to it, and worships it, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for you are my god.

  • Ps 86:8
    72%

    8Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord, nor are there any works like Your works.

  • Deut 4:16
    72%

    16Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make for yourselves a carved image, the likeness of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

  • Isa 40:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured the heavens with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

    13Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or as his counselor has taught him?

  • Job 4:17
    72%

    17Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

  • Isa 41:29
    72%

    29Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

  • Deut 5:8
    72%

    8You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

  • Rom 9:20
    72%

    20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me like this?

  • 1 Chr 17:20
    72%

    20O LORD, there is none like you, neither is there any God beside you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

  • Ps 97:7
    71%

    7Confounded be all who serve carved images, who boast of idols: worship him, all you gods.

  • Isa 17:8
    71%

    8And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves or the images.

  • Ps 18:31
    71%

    31For who is God except the LORD? or who is a rock except our God?

  • Ps 113:5
    71%

    5Who is like the LORD our God, who dwells on high,

  • Isa 37:19
    71%

    19And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

  • Ezek 20:32
    71%

    32And what comes into your mind shall not happen, that you say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

  • Jer 10:6
    71%

    6There is none like you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might.

  • Isa 45:20
    71%

    20Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge who set up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    71%

    18And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

  • Isa 42:17
    71%

    17They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in carved images, that say to the molded images, 'You are our gods.'

  • Jer 10:8
    71%

    8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.

  • Isa 29:16
    71%

    16Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay; for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

    28And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

  • Isa 45:9
    71%

    9Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him who forms it, What are you making? or shall your work say, He has no hands?

  • Lev 26:1
    70%

    1You shall make no idols nor carved image, neither set up a standing image, nor shall you set up any image of stone in your land to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.

  • Exod 15:11
    70%

    11Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?