Jeremiah 16:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Isa 37:19 : 19 And 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.
  • Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 5 They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see; 6 They have ears, but they do not hear; noses they have, but they do not smell; 7 They have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they speak through their throat. 8 Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.
  • Gal 4:8 : 8 However, then, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.
  • Jer 2:11 : 11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
  • Hos 8:4-6 : 4 They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I did not acknowledge it. From their silver and their gold, they have made idols for themselves, that they may be cut off. 5 Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them. How long will it be until they attain innocence? 6 For it is from Israel; the workman made it, and it is not God. But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
  • Acts 19:26 : 26 Moreover, you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are not gods which are made with hands;
  • Gal 1:8 : 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.
  • Ps 135:14-18 : 14 For the LORD will judge his people, and he will have compassion on his servants. 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 16 They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes have they, but they do not see; 17 They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them are like them: so is everyone that trusts in them.
  • Isa 36:19 : 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

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    9 Those 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.

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

  • Isa 40:18-19
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    18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

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

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

  • Jer 2:11
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    11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

  • Exod 20:23
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    23 You shall not make anything to be with Me—gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

  • Isa 37:19
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    19 And 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.

  • Exod 34:17
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    17 You shall make no molten gods for yourself.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
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    18 And 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.

  • Ps 135:18
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    18 Those who make them are like them: so is everyone that trusts in them.

  • Jer 2:28
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    28 But where are your gods that you have made? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.

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

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    17 And 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.

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

  • Deut 32:37
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    37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

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    11 Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

  • Ezek 20:32
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    32 And 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.

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

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    17 Every 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.

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

  • Isa 45:16
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    16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together, those who are makers of idols.

  • Jer 16:19
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    19 O LORD, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to you from the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.

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    16 Surely 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?

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    20 But 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?

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  • Hab 2:18
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    18 What 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?

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    4 Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

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    20 Assemble 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.

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    5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

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    14 Every 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.

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

  • Isa 42:17
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    17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in carved images, that say to the molded images, 'You are our gods.'

  • Exod 32:23
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    23 For they said to me, 'Make us gods who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

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    3 You shall have no other gods before Me.

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    8 And 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.

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    9 There shall be no strange god among you; nor shall you worship any foreign god.

  • 2 Chr 32:19
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    19 And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of men's hands.

  • Lev 26:1
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    1 You 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.

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    6 For it is from Israel; the workman made it, and it is not God. But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

  • Isa 44:15
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    15 Then it shall be for a man to burn: for he will take of it, and warm himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread; yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.

  • Deut 29:26
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    26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:

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    6 They 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.

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

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    3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces: should I be inquired of at all by them?