Acts 17:29

Acts chapter 17 · verse 29 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.

Context

v.28for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

v.29This passage

v.30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 20:4

    Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

  • Jeremiah 10:4

    They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

  • Isaiah 46:5

    To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

  • Exodus 32:4

    And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

  • Isaiah 40:25

    To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to him? saith the Holy One.

  • Romans 1:20

    For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: