Jeremiah 2:11
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11 Has a nation changed its gods,
even though they are no gods?
But my people have changed their glory
for something that does not profit.(A)
Jeremiah 16:20
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20 Can mortals make for themselves gods?
Such are no gods!”(A)
Isaiah 37:19
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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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Romans 1:23
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23 and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.(A)
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Psalm 106:20
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- 106.20 Compare Gk mss: Heb exchanged their glory
Micah 4:5
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5 For all the peoples walk,
each in the name of its god,
but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God
forever and ever.(A)
1 Corinthians 8:4
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4 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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Jeremiah 2:8
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8 The priests did not say, “Where is the Lord?”
Those who handle the law did not know me;
the rulers[a] transgressed against me;
the prophets prophesied by Baal
and went after things that do not profit.(A)
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- 2.8 Heb shepherds
Jeremiah 2:5
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5 Thus says the Lord:
What wrong did your ancestors find in me
that they went far from me
and went after worthless things and became worthless themselves?(A)
Psalm 115:4
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4 Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.(A)
Psalm 3:3
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3 But you, O Lord, are a shield around me,
my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.(A)
Deuteronomy 33:29
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29 Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you,
a people saved by the Lord,
the shield of your help
and the sword of your triumph!
Your enemies shall come fawning to you,
but you shall tread on their backs.”(A)
1 Peter 1:18
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18 You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold
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