Other translations
New Catholic Bible
If they have been deluded by the beauty of these things into believing that these were gods, let them come to understand how far superior to these is their Lord, since he was the source of beauty that fashioned them.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
If through delight in the beauty of these things people assumed them to be gods, let them know how much better than these is their Lord, for the author of beauty created them.
Good News Translation®
People were so delighted with the beauty of these things that they thought they must be gods, but they should have realized that these things have a master and that he is much greater than all of them, for he is the creator of beauty, and he created them.
Wycliffe Bible
and if they delighted in the fairness of those things, and guessed them (to be) gods, know they, how much the Lord of those things is fairer than those; for why the (en)genderer of fairness made all these things. [in whose fairness delighted, if they guessed (to be) gods, know they, how much than these the lordshipper of them is the fairer; the (be)getter forsooth of fairness all these thing ordained.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
If through delight in the beauty of these things men assumed them to be gods, let them know how much better than these is their Lord, for the author of beauty created them.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
If through delight in the beauty of these things people assumed them to be gods, let them know how much better than these is their Lord, for the author of beauty created them.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
If through delight in the beauty of these things people assumed them to be gods, let them know how much better than these is their Lord, for the author of beauty created them.
Common English Bible © 2011
They should have known that all these things—which they took to be gods and delighted in—were much less beautiful than the one who rules them all. The creator of beauty itself created them.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Now if out of joy in their beauty they thought them gods, let them know how far more excellent is the Lord than these; for the original source of beauty fashioned them.
Revised Standard Version
If through delight in the beauty of these things men assumed them to be gods, let them know how much better than these is their Lord, for the author of beauty created them.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
If through delight in the beauty of these things people assumed them to be gods, let them know how much better than these is their Lord, for the author of beauty created them.