Jeremiah 2:11
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11 Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones,
even though they are not gods at all?
Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God[a]
for worthless idols!
Footnotes
- 2:11 Hebrew their glory.
Jeremiah 16:20
New Living Translation
20 Can people make their own gods?
These are not real gods at all!”
Isaiah 37:19
New Living Translation
19 And they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all—only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands.
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Romans 1:23
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23 And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.
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Psalm 106:20
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20 They traded their glorious God
for a statue of a grass-eating bull.
Micah 4:5
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5 Though the nations around us follow their idols,
we will follow the Lord our God forever and ever.
1 Corinthians 8:4
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4 So, what about eating meat that has been offered to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that there is only one God.
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Jeremiah 2:8
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8 The priests did not ask,
‘Where is the Lord?’
Those who taught my word ignored me,
the rulers turned against me,
and the prophets spoke in the name of Baal,
wasting their time on worthless idols.
Jeremiah 2:5
New Living Translation
5 This is what the Lord says:
“What did your ancestors find wrong with me
that led them to stray so far from me?
They worshiped worthless idols,
only to become worthless themselves.
Psalm 115:4
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4 Their idols are merely things of silver and gold,
shaped by human hands.
Psalm 3:3
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3 But you, O Lord, are a shield around me;
you are my glory, the one who holds my head high.
Deuteronomy 33:29
New Living Translation
29 How blessed you are, O Israel!
Who else is like you, a people saved by the Lord?
He is your protecting shield
and your triumphant sword!
Your enemies will cringe before you,
and you will stomp on their backs!”
1 Peter 1:18
New Living Translation
18 For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or silver, which lose their value.
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