²² nor shall you set up a stone pillar—things that the Lord your God hates.

Rewards for Obedience

26 “You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no carved images or pillars, and you shall not place figured stones in your land, to worship at them, for I am the Lord your God.^(A)

⁴ “You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.^(A)

¹⁵ So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

⁶ Yet this is to your credit: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

¹⁷ do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these are things that I hate, says the Lord.”^(A)

⁴ Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, “I beg you not to do this abominable thing that I hate!”^(A)

³¹ You must not do the same for the Lord your God, because every abhorrent thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods. They would even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.^(A)