Acts 17:29
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.Acts 17:29 · WEB
This verse in other languages
- ગુજરાતી — પ્રેરિતોનાં કૃત્યો ૧૭:૨૯
- હવે આપણે ઈશ્વરના વંશજો છીએ માટે આપણે એમ ન ધારવું જોઈએ કે ઈશ્વર માણસોની કારીગરી તથા ચતુરાઈથી કોતરેલા સોના કે રૂપા કે પથ્થરના જેવા છે.
- हिन्दी — प्रेरितों के काम १७:२९
- अतः परमेश्वर का वंश होकर हमें यह समझना उचित नहीं कि ईश्वरत्व, सोने या चाँदी या पत्थर के समान है, जो मनुष्य की कारीगरी और कल्पना से गढ़े गए हों। (उत्प. 1:27, यशा. 40:18-20, यशा. 44:10-17)
In context
27that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
28‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
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