Bible Verses About Turning Away from Idolatry

But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

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.

Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

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.

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

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.

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.

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;

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.

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.

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the Lord; but they did not so.

For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

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.

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

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.

For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

For some are already turned aside after Satan.

And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

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.

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods;

Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord.

Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.