Jeremiah 16:20
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Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”
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They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be under a curse!