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Romans 1:23
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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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Romans 1:23
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Romans 1:23
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23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images(A) made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
Psalm 106:20
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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.
Psalm 106:20
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Psalm 106:20
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20 They exchanged their glorious God(A)
for an image of a bull, which eats grass.
Jeremiah 2:11
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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!
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- 2:11 Hebrew their glory.
Jeremiah 2:11
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Jeremiah 2:11
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Acts 17:29
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Acts 17:29
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29 And since this is true, we shouldn’t think of God as an idol designed by craftsmen from gold or silver or stone.
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Acts 17:29
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Acts 17:29
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29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.(A)
Romans 1:25
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Romans 1:25
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25 They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen.
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Romans 1:25
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Romans 1:25
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25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,(A) and worshiped and served created things(B) rather than the Creator—who is forever praised.(C) Amen.(D)
1 Peter 4:3
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1 Peter 4:3
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3 You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.
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1 Peter 4:3
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1 Peter 4:3
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3 For you have spent enough time in the past(A) doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.(B)
Ezekiel 8:10
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Ezekiel 8:10
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10 So I went in and saw the walls covered with engravings of all kinds of crawling animals and detestable creatures. I also saw the various idols[a] worshiped by the people of Israel.
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- 8:10 The Hebrew term (literally round things) probably alludes to dung.
Ezekiel 8:10
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Ezekiel 8:10
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10 So I went in and looked, and I saw portrayed all over the walls(A) all kinds of crawling things and unclean(B) animals and all the idols of Israel.(C)
Psalm 135:15-18
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Psalm 135:15-18
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15 The idols of the nations are merely things of silver and gold,
shaped by human hands.
16 They have mouths but cannot speak,
and eyes but cannot see.
17 They have ears but cannot hear,
and mouths but cannot breathe.
18 And those who make idols are just like them,
as are all who trust in them.
Psalm 135:15-18
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Psalm 135:15-18
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Psalm 115:5-8
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Psalm 115:5-8
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5 They have mouths but cannot speak,
and eyes but cannot see.
6 They have ears but cannot hear,
and noses but cannot smell.
7 They have hands but cannot feel,
and feet but cannot walk,
and throats but cannot make a sound.
8 And those who make idols are just like them,
as are all who trust in them.
Psalm 115:5-8
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Psalm 115:5-8
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5 They have mouths, but cannot speak,(A)
eyes, but cannot see.
6 They have ears, but cannot hear,
noses, but cannot smell.
7 They have hands, but cannot feel,
feet, but cannot walk,
nor can they utter a sound with their throats.
8 Those who make them will be like them,
and so will all who trust in them.
Deuteronomy 5:8
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Deuteronomy 5:8
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8 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind, or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea.
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Deuteronomy 5:8
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Deuteronomy 5:8
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8 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.(A)
Isaiah 44:13
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Isaiah 44:13
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13 Then the wood-carver measures a block of wood
and draws a pattern on it.
He works with chisel and plane
and carves it into a human figure.
He gives it human beauty
and puts it in a little shrine.
Isaiah 44:13
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Isaiah 44:13
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Isaiah 40:18
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Isaiah 40:18
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18 To whom can you compare God?
What image can you find to resemble him?
Isaiah 40:18
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Isaiah 40:18
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Deuteronomy 4:15-18
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Deuteronomy 4:15-18
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A Warning against Idolatry
15 “But be very careful! You did not see the Lord’s form on the day he spoke to you from the heart of the fire at Mount Sinai. 16 So do not corrupt yourselves by making an idol in any form—whether of a man or a woman, 17 an animal on the ground, a bird in the sky, 18 a small animal that scurries along the ground, or a fish in the deepest sea.
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Deuteronomy 4:15-18
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Deuteronomy 4:15-18
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Idolatry Forbidden
15 You saw no form(A) of any kind the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb(B) out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully,(C) 16 so that you do not become corrupt(D) and make for yourselves an idol,(E) an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, 17 or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air,(F) 18 or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below.
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