Exodus 20:23
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23 You shall not make anything to be (A)with Me—gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.
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Ezekiel 20:39
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39 “As for you, O house of Israel,” thus says the Lord God: (A)“Go, serve every one of you his idols—and hereafter—if you will not obey Me; (B)but profane My holy name no more with your gifts and your idols.
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Zephaniah 1:5
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5 Those (A)who worship the host of heaven on the housetops;
Those who worship and swear oaths by the Lord,
But who also swear (B)by [a]Milcom;
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- Zephaniah 1:5 Or Malcam, an Ammonite god, 1 Kin. 11:5; Jer. 49:1; Molech, Lev. 18:21
2 Kings 17:33
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33 (A)They feared the Lord, yet served their own gods—according to the rituals of the nations from among whom they were carried away.
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Revelation 22:15
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15 [a]But (A)outside are (B)dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
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- Revelation 22:15 NU, M omit But
1 John 5:20-21
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Exodus 32:31
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31 Then Moses (A)returned to the Lord and said, “Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have (B)made for themselves a god of gold!
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Exodus 20:3-5
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3 (A)“You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 (B)“You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 (C)you shall not bow down to them nor [a]serve them. (D)For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, (E)visiting[b] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
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- Exodus 20:5 worship
- Exodus 20:5 punishing
Colossians 2:18-19
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18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has [a]not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to (A)the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, (B)grows with the increase that is from God.
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- Colossians 2:18 NU omits not
2 Corinthians 6:14-16
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14 (A)Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For (B)what [a]fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what [b]communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For (C)you[c] are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
(D)“I will dwell in them
And walk among them.
I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.”
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- 2 Corinthians 6:14 in common
- 2 Corinthians 6:14 fellowship
- 2 Corinthians 6:16 NU we
Daniel 5:23
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23 (A)And you have [a]lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the (B)vessels of [b]His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, (C)which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand (D)and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.
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- Daniel 5:23 Exalted
- Daniel 5:23 The temple
Daniel 5:4
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4 They drank wine, (A)and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
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Ezekiel 43:8
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8 (A)When they set their threshold by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them and Me, they defiled My holy name by the abominations which they committed; therefore I have consumed them in My anger.
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2 Kings 17:41
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41 (A)So these nations feared the Lord, yet served their carved images; also their children and their children’s children have continued doing as their fathers did, even to this day.
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1 Samuel 5:4-5
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4 And when they arose early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. (A)The head of Dagon and both the palms of its hands were broken off on the threshold; only [a]Dagon’s torso was left of it. 5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house (B)tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.
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- 1 Samuel 5:4 So with LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg.; MT Dagon
Exodus 32:1-4
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The Gold Calf(A)
32 Now when the people saw that Moses (B)delayed coming down from the mountain, the people (C)gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, (D)“Come, make us [a]gods that shall (E)go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who (F)brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
2 And Aaron said to them, “Break off the (G)golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” 3 So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. 4 (H)And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf.
Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, that (I)brought you out of the land of Egypt!”
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- Exodus 32:1 Or a god
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