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)
2 Kings 17:15
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15 They despised his statutes and his covenant that he had made with their ancestors and the warnings that he had given them. They went after false idols and became false; they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.(A)
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Romans 1:21
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21 for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless hearts were darkened.(A)
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Jonah 2:8
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8 Those who worship vain idols
forsake their true loyalty.(A)
Jeremiah 10:14-15
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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)
15 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Psalm 115:8
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8 Those who make them are like them;
so are all who trust in them.(A)
Jeremiah 51:17-18
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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)
Isaiah 44:9
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The Absurdity of Idol Worship
9 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)
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1 Samuel 12:21
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21 and do not turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or save, for they are useless.(A)
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Deuteronomy 32:21
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21 They made me jealous with what is no god,
provoked me with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with what is no people,
provoke them with a foolish nation.(A)
Acts 14:15
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15 “People,[a] why are you doing this? We are mortals just like you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.(A)
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- 14.15 Gk Men
Micah 6:2-3
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2 Hear, you mountains, the case of the Lord,
and you enduring foundations of the earth,
for the Lord has a case against his people,
and he will contend with Israel.(A)
3 “O my people, what have I done to you?
In what have I wearied you? Answer me!(B)
Jeremiah 14:22
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22 Can any idols of the nations bring rain,
or can the heavens give showers?
Is it not you, O Lord our God?
We set our hope on you,
for it is you who do all this.(A)
Jeremiah 2:31
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31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord![a]
Have I been a wilderness to Israel
or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, “We are free;
we will come to you no more”?(A)
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- 2.31 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 5:3-4
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3 And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem
and people of Judah,
judge between me
and my vineyard.(A)
4 What more was there to do for my vineyard
that I have not done in it?
When I expected it to yield grapes,
why did it yield rotten grapes?(B)
Matthew 15:8
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8 ‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;(A)
Ezekiel 11:15
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15 Mortal, your kinsfolk, your own kin, your fellow exiles,[a] the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, “Stay far from the Lord; to us this land is given for a possession.”(A)
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- 11.15 Gk Syr: Heb people of your kindred
Jeremiah 12:2
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2 You plant them, and they take root;
they grow and bring forth fruit;
you are near in their mouths
yet far from their hearts.(A)
Jeremiah 10:8
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Isaiah 43:22-23
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22 Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob;
but you have been weary of me, O Israel!(A)
23 You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings
or honored me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings
or wearied you with frankincense.(B)
Isaiah 29:13
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13 The Lord said:
Because these people draw near with their mouths
and honor me with their lips,
while their hearts are far from me
and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,(A)
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