Leviticus 19:4
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4 Do not turn to idols or make cast images for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.(A)
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Leviticus 26:1
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26 “You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no carved images or pillars, and you shall not place figured stones in your land, to worship at them, for I am the Lord your God.(A)
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Exodus 34:17
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17 “You shall not make cast idols.(A)
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Exodus 20:23
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23 You shall not make gods of silver alongside me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.(A)
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1 John 5:21
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21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.[a]
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- 5.21 Other ancient authorities add Amen
Psalm 115:4-7
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4 Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.(A)
5 They have mouths, but they do not speak;
they have eyes, but they do not see.
6 They have ears, but they do not hear;
they have noses, but they do not smell.
7 They have hands, but they do not feel;
they have feet, but they do not walk;
they make no sound in their throats.
Deuteronomy 27:15
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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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Exodus 20:3-5
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3 you shall have no other gods before[a] me.(A)
4 “You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.(B) 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me(C)
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- 20.3 Or besides
1 Corinthians 10:14
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14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from the worship of idols.(A)
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Psalm 96:5
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5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
but the Lord made the heavens.(A)
Exodus 32:4
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4 He took these from them, formed them in a mold,[a] and cast an image of a calf, and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”(A)
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- 32.4 Or fashioned it with an engraving tool; meaning of Heb uncertain
Haggai 2:18
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18 Consider from this day on, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider:(A)
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