1 Samuel 12:21
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21 And (A)do not turn aside; (B)for then you would go after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing.
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Habakkuk 2:18
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18 “What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it,
The molded image, a teacher of lies,
That the maker of its mold should trust in it,
To make mute idols?
Jeremiah 16:19
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19 O Lord, (A)my strength and my fortress,
(B)My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and (C)unprofitable things.”
Jeremiah 10:15
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15 They are futile, a work of errors;
In the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Jeremiah 14:22
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22 (A)Are there any among (B)the idols of the nations that can cause (C)rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
(D)Are You not He, O Lord our God?
Therefore we will wait for You,
Since You have made all these.
Deuteronomy 11:16
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16 Take heed to yourselves, (A)lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and (B)serve other gods and worship them,
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1 Corinthians 8:4
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4 Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that (A)an idol is nothing in the world, (B)and that there is no other God but one.
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Jonah 2:8
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Notas al pie
- Jonah 2:8 Or Lovingkindness
Jeremiah 2:13
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13 “For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me, the (A)fountain of living waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Isaiah 46:7
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7 (A)They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it
And set it in its place, and it stands;
From its place it shall not move.
Though (B)one cries out to it, yet it cannot answer
Nor save him out of his trouble.
Isaiah 45:20
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20 “Assemble yourselves and come;
Draw near together,
You who have escaped from the nations.
(A)They have no knowledge,
Who carry the wood of their carved image,
And pray to a god that cannot save.
Isaiah 44:9-10
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Idolatry Is Foolishness
9 (A)Those who make an image, all of them are useless,
And their precious things shall not profit;
They are their own witnesses;
(B)They neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed.
10 Who would form a god or mold an image
(C)That profits him nothing?
Jeremiah 10:8
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Notas al pie
- Jeremiah 10:8 vain teaching
Jeremiah 2:5
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5 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“What injustice have your fathers found in Me,
That they have gone far from Me,
(B)Have followed [a]idols,
And have become idolaters?
Notas al pie
- Jeremiah 2:5 vanities or futilities
Isaiah 41:29
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29 (A)Indeed they are all [a]worthless;
Their works are nothing;
Their molded images are wind and confusion.
Notas al pie
- Isaiah 41:29 So with MT, Vg.; DSS, Syr., Tg. nothing; LXX omits first line
Isaiah 41:23-24
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23 (A)Show the things that are to come hereafter,
That we may know that you are gods;
Yes, (B)do good or do evil,
That we may be dismayed and see it together.
24 Indeed (C)you are nothing,
And your work is nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination.
Psalm 115:4-8
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4 (A)Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.
5 They have mouths, but they do not speak;
Eyes they have, but they do not see;
6 They have ears, but they do not hear;
Noses they have, but they do not smell;
7 They have hands, but they do not handle;
Feet they have, but they do not walk;
Nor do they mutter through their throat.
8 (B)Those who make them are like them;
So is everyone who trusts in them.
Deuteronomy 32:21
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21 (A)They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;
They have moved Me to anger (B)by their [a]foolish idols.
But (C)I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;
I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
Notas al pie
- Deuteronomy 32:21 foolishness, lit. vanities
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