Isaiah 40:18

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To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 46:5 : 5 To whom can you compare and liken me? Tell me whom you think I resemble, so we can be compared!
  • Acts 17:29 : 29 So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.
  • 1 Sam 2:2 : 2 No one is holy like the LORD! There is no one other than you! There is no rock like our God!
  • Isa 40:25 : 25 “To whom can you compare me? Whom do I resemble?” says the Holy One.
  • Exod 8:10 : 10 He said,“Tomorrow.” And Moses said,“It will be as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.
  • Exod 9:14 : 14 For this time I will send all my plagues on your very self and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
  • Exod 15:11 : 11 Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you?– majestic in holiness, fearful in praises, working wonders?
  • Exod 20:4 : 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.
  • Deut 33:26 : 26 General Praise and Blessing There is no one like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the sky to help you, on the clouds in majesty.
  • Job 40:9 : 9 Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
  • Ps 86:8-9 : 8 None can compare to you among the gods, O Lord! Your exploits are incomparable! 9 All the nations, whom you created, will come and worship you, O Lord. They will honor your name. 10 For you are great and do amazing things. You alone are God.
  • Ps 89:6 : 6 For who in the skies can compare to the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the heavenly beings,
  • Ps 89:8 : 8 O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies! Who is strong like you, O LORD? Your faithfulness surrounds you.
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love?
  • Col 1:15 : 15 The Supremacy of Christ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
  • Isa 46:9 : 9 Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! Truly I am God, I have no peer; I am God, and there is none like me,
  • Jer 10:6 : 6 I said,“There is no one like you, LORD. You are great. And you are renowned for your power.
  • Jer 10:16 : 16 The LORD, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
  • Ps 113:5 : 5 Who can compare to the LORD our God, who sits on a high throne?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Isa 46:5-6
    2 verses
    84%

    5To whom can you compare and liken me? Tell me whom you think I resemble, so we can be compared!

    6Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.

  • Isa 40:25
    83%

    25“To whom can you compare me? Whom do I resemble?” says the Holy One.

  • Isa 44:9-10
    2 verses
    82%

    9All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.

    10Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?

  • Isa 40:17
    81%

    17All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.

  • Isa 40:19-21
    3 verses
    81%

    19A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.

    20To make a contribution one selects wood that will not rot; he then seeks a skilled craftsman to make an idol that will not fall over.

    21Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?

  • Jer 16:20
    77%

    20Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”

  • Ps 135:18
    75%

    18Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

  • Ps 115:4
    75%

    4Their idols are made of silver and gold– they are man-made.

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?

    19Woe to the one who says to wood,‘Wake up!’– he who says to speechless stone,‘Awake!’ Can it give reliable guidance? It is overlaid with gold and silver; it has no life’s breath inside it.

  • Isa 41:24
    74%

    24Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.

  • Jer 51:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

    18They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

  • Job 40:9
    74%

    9Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

  • Ps 135:15
    73%

    15The nations’ idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made.

  • Ps 115:8
    73%

    8Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

  • Exod 20:4
    73%

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

  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

    15They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

  • Ps 89:6
    73%

    6For who in the skies can compare to the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the heavenly beings,

  • Isa 44:17
    73%

    17With the rest of it he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships it. He prays to it, saying,‘Rescue me, for you are my god!’

  • Ps 86:8
    72%

    8None can compare to you among the gods, O Lord! Your exploits are incomparable!

  • Deut 4:16
    72%

    16I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,

  • Isa 40:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12The Lord is Incomparable Who has measured out the waters in the hollow of his hand, or carefully measured the sky, or carefully weighed the soil of the earth, or weighed the mountains in a balance, or the hills on scales?

    13Who comprehends the mind of the LORD, or gives him instruction as his counselor?

  • Job 4:17
    72%

    17“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

  • Isa 41:29
    72%

    29Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.

  • Deut 5:8
    72%

    8You must not make for yourself an image of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.

  • Rom 9:20
    72%

    20But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”

  • 1 Chr 17:20
    72%

    20O LORD, there is none like you; there is no God besides you! What we heard is true!

  • Ps 97:7
    71%

    7All who worship idols are ashamed, those who boast about worthless idols. All the gods bow down before him.

  • Isa 17:8
    71%

    8They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.

  • Ps 18:31
    71%

    31Indeed, who is God besides the LORD? Who is a protector besides our God?

  • Ps 113:5
    71%

    5Who can compare to the LORD our God, who sits on a high throne?

  • Isa 37:19
    71%

    19They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

  • Ezek 20:32
    71%

    32“‘What you plan will never happen. You say,“We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.”

  • Jer 10:6
    71%

    6I said,“There is no one like you, LORD. You are great. And you are renowned for your power.

  • Isa 45:20
    71%

    20Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations! Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    71%

    18They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

  • Isa 42:17
    71%

    17Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images,‘You are our gods.’”

  • Jer 10:8
    71%

    8The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

  • Isa 29:16
    71%

    16Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter,“He doesn’t understand”?

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

    28There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

  • Isa 45:9
    71%

    9The Lord Gives a Warning One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter,“What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”

  • Lev 26:1
    70%

    1Exhortation to Obedience“‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before 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?– majestic in holiness, fearful in praises, working wonders?