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.
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.
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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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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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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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.
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 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.
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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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 40:18
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18 To whom can you compare God?
What image can you find to resemble him?
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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1 Corinthians 12:2
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2 You know that when you were still pagans, you were led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols.
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Isaiah 40:26
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26 Look up into the heavens.
Who created all the stars?
He brings them out like an army, one after another,
calling each by its name.
Because of his great power and incomparable strength,
not a single one is missing.
Revelation 9:20
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20 But the people who did not die in these plagues still refused to repent of their evil deeds and turn to God. They continued to worship demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—idols that can neither see nor hear nor walk!
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