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24 You, indeed, are nothing,
    and your work is nothing at all;
    whoever chooses you is an abomination.(A)

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Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists” and that “there is no God but one.”(A)

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Those who make them are like them;
    so are all who trust in them.(A)

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29 No, they are all a delusion;
    their works are nothing;
    their images are empty wind.(A)

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They are both stupid and foolish;
    the instruction given by idols
    is no better than wood![a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 10.8 Q ms Gk lack 10.6–8

and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the great, mother[a] of whores[b] and of earth’s abominations.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 17.5 Or Babylon, the great mother
  2. 17.5 Or prostitutes

17 Everyone is stupid and without knowledge;
    goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols,
for their images are false,
    and there is no breath in them.(A)
18 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
    at the time of their punishment they shall perish.(B)

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14 Everyone is stupid and without knowledge;
    goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols,
for their images are false,
    and there is no breath in them.(A)

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24 And they shall go out and look at the dead bodies of the people who have rebelled against me, for their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.(A)

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The Absurdity of Idol Worship

All who make idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit; their witnesses neither see nor know, and so they will be put to shame.(A) 10 Who would fashion a god or cast an image that can do no good?(B)

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19 and have hurled their gods into the fire, though they were no gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone—and so they were destroyed.(A)

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15 “ ‘Cursed be anyone who makes an idol or casts an image, anything abhorrent to the Lord, the work of an artisan, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall respond, saying, ‘Amen!’(A)

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26 Do not bring an abhorrent thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You must utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.

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