Exodus 20:23
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23 (A)You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.
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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, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; (B)but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.
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Zephaniah 1:5
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5 (A)those who bow down on the roofs
to the host of the heavens,
(B)those who bow down and swear to the Lord
and yet swear by (C)Milcom,[a]
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- Zephaniah 1:5 Or their king
2 Kings 17:33
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33 So they feared the Lord but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
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Revelation 22:15
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15 (A)Outside are (B)the dogs (C)and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
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1 John 5:20-21
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20 And we know that the Son of God has come and (A)has given us understanding, so that we may know (B)him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and (C)eternal life. 21 Little children, (D)keep yourselves from idols.
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Exodus 32:31
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31 So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, (A)this people has sinned a great sin. They have (B)made for themselves gods of gold.
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Exodus 20:3-5
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3 (A)“You shall have no other gods before[a] me.
4 (B)“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or 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 or serve them, for I the Lord your God am (D)a jealous God, (E)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
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- Exodus 20:3 Or besides
Colossians 2:18-19
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18 Let no one (A)disqualify you, (B)insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, (C)going on in detail about visions,[a] (D)puffed up without reason by (E)his sensuous mind, 19 and (F)not (G)holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
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- Colossians 2:18 Or about the things he has seen
2 Corinthians 6:14-16
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The Temple of the Living God
14 (A)Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For (B)what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or (C)what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 (D)What accord has Christ with Belial?[a] Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For (E)we are the temple of the living God; as God said,
(F)“I will make my dwelling among them and (G)walk among them,
and (H)I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
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- 2 Corinthians 6:15 Greek Beliar
Daniel 5:23
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23 but you have lifted up yourself against (A)the Lord of heaven. And (B)the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. (C)And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, (D)but the God in whose hand is your breath, and (E)whose are all your ways, (F)you have not honored.
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Daniel 5:4
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4 They drank wine and (A)praised the (B)gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
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Ezekiel 43:8
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8 by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with (A)only a wall between me and them. They have (B)defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so 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 and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
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1 Samuel 5:4-5
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4 But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord, (A)and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him. 5 This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon (B)do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.
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Exodus 32:1-4
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The Golden Calf
32 When the people saw that Moses (A)delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, (B)“Up, make us gods who shall (C)go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” 2 So Aaron said to them, “Take off the (D)rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” 3 So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. 4 (E)And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden[a] calf. And they said, (F)“These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
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- Exodus 32:4 Hebrew cast metal; also verse 8
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