Exodus 20:4
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4 (A)“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.
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Leviticus 26:1
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Blessings for Obedience
26 “You shall not make (A)idols for yourselves or erect an (B)image or (C)pillar, and you shall not set up a (D)figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.
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Deuteronomy 5:8
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8 “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
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Deuteronomy 4:15-19
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Idolatry Forbidden
15 (A)“Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since (B)you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, 16 beware (C)lest you act corruptly (D)by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, (E)the likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. 19 And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see (F)the sun and the moon and the stars, (G)all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
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Psalm 97:7
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7 All worshipers of images are (A)put to shame,
who make their boast in (B)worthless idols;
(C)worship him, all you gods!
Leviticus 19:4
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4 (A)Do not turn to idols (B)or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.
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Deuteronomy 27:15
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15 (A)“‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ (B)And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
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Acts 17:29
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29 (A)Being then God's offspring, (B)we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
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Revelation 16:2
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2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful (A)sores came upon the people who bore (B)the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
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Jeremiah 10:14-16
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14 (A)Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
(B)every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
(C)and there is no breath in them.
15 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
16 Not like these is he who is (D)the portion of Jacob,
for he is the one who formed all things,
(E)and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance;
(F)the Lord of hosts is his name.
Psalm 115:4-8
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4 (A)Their idols are silver and gold,
(B)the work of human hands.
5 They have mouths, (C)but do not speak;
eyes, but do not see.
6 They have ears, but do not hear;
noses, but do not smell.
7 They have hands, but do not feel;
feet, but do not walk;
and they do not make a sound in their throat.
8 (D)Those who make them become like them;
so do all who trust in them.
Romans 1:23
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23 and (A)exchanged the glory of (B)the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
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Jeremiah 10:8-9
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8 (A)They are both (B)stupid and foolish;
the instruction of idols is but wood!
9 (C)Beaten silver is brought from (D)Tarshish,
and gold from (E)Uphaz.
(F)They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith;
their clothing is violet and purple;
(G)they are all the work of skilled men.
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