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Those who make them will be like them; Yes, everyone who trusts in them.
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You Become What You Worship
Commentators like Spurgeon and Gill explain that this verse reveals a profound spiritual principle: you become like what you worship. Those who make and trust in lifeless, senseless idols progressively become spiritually blind, deaf, and dead themselves, taking on the characteristics of the false gods they serve.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold ... - To show more fully the propriety of praising God, and him alone as God, the psal…
19th Century
Baptist
The original conveys the idea that those who make such gods grow to be like them; they are continually becoming more and more like them. They becom…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They that make them are like unto them Are as blind, stupid, and senseless as they; or "let them that make them"
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These verses arm believers against idolatry and all false worship, by showing what sort of gods pagans worshipped. The more deplorable the conditio…
