Bible Verses About Idolatry
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They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
Scripture Passages
For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
For all the gods of the people are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the Lord thy God hateth.
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of menβs hands.
For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of menβs hands.
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
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