Exodus 20:4
"You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.”
Exodus 34:17
"Do not make cast idols.”
Leviticus 19:4
"Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.”
Leviticus 26:1
"'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God. ’”
Deuteronomy 5:8
"You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. ”
1 Samuel 12:21
"Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless. ”
1 Samuel 15:23 "For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.”
2 Kings 23:24
"Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the LORD. ”
Isaiah 42:8
"I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols.”
Isaiah 44:6
"This is what the LORD says— Israel's King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty: ‘I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.’”
Ezekiel 14:6
"Therefore say to the house of Israel, This is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'Repent! Turn from your idols and renounce all your detestable practices!’”
Ezekiel 20:7
"And I said to them, ‘Each of you, get rid of the vile images you have set your eyes on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”
Ezekiel 20:18
"I said to their children in the desert, ‘Do not follow the statutes of your fathers or keep their laws or defile yourselves with their idols.’”
Ezekiel 36:25
"I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.”
Ezekiel 37:23
"They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God. ”
Jonah 2:8
"Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs.”
Habakkuk 2:18
"Of what value is an idol, since a man has carved it? Or an image that teaches lies? For he who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.”
Zechariah 10:2
"The idols speak deceit, diviners see visions that lie; they tell dreams that are false, they give comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep oppressed for lack of a shepherd.”
Zechariah 13:2
"‘On that day, I will banish the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more,’ declares the LORD Almighty. ‘I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.’”
1 Corinthians 8:4-6
"So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.”
1 Corinthians 10:19-20 "Do I mean then that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.”
2 Corinthians 6:16
"What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: ‘I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.’”
Colossians 3:5
"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.”
1 Thessalonians 1:9-10
"for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.”
1 Peter 4:1-3
"Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin. As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. ”
1 John 5:21
"Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. ”
