Bible Verses About images
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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.
Scripture Passages
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the Lord thy God hateth.
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.
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.
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee.
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.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
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.
Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
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.
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?
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.
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of menβs hands.
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of menβs hands.
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
And they set them up Micahβs graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
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.
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
And these went into Micahβs house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
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