Idolatry (Bible Verses)

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Isaiah 44:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

1 Samuel 7:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

Jeremiah 10:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Matthew 4:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Exodus 20:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Deuteronomy 5:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

Romans 1:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Deuteronomy 5:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,

1 Corinthians 10:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Exodus 20:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

1 Corinthians 10:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Exodus 20:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Jeremiah 2:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Acts 7:42 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

Psalms 16:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

Revelation 2:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

1 Corinthians 10:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

Romans 1:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Psalms 115:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Exodus 32:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

1 Kings 11:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

Acts 17:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

Exodus 32:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 10:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

Romans 1:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Isaiah 44:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

Jeremiah 2:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

Revelation 17:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

Jeremiah 32:35 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

Jeremiah 10:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

Jeremiah 2:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

2 Kings 3:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

Isaiah 66:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

Exodus 32:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

Revelation 9:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Habakkuk 2:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

Acts 7:43 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Judges 17:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Jeremiah 44:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

Leviticus 26:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

Jeremiah 10:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Jeremiah 10:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.

Jonah 2:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Psalms 115:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

Revelation 9:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Hosea 10:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

Exodus 34:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

1 Corinthians 10:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

Hosea 4:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

1 John 5:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

Deuteronomy 18:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.

Isaiah 44:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

Matthew 4:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

Luke 4:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

1 Kings 14:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

Hosea 8:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

1 Kings 21:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

Psalms 96:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

Isaiah 31:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

2 Kings 17:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

Acts 14:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:

Psalms 115:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

2 Kings 17:35 KJV Bible Verse Image
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With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:

Habakkuk 2:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

Numbers 25:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

2 Chronicles 33:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

Leviticus 19:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

Acts 17:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Daniel 3:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

Ezekiel 8:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

Jeremiah 19:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

1 Kings 11:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

Bible Theme & Topic Recap: Idolatry

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