Bible Verses About Idolatry
Bible verses about Idolatry
Discover what the Bible says about idolatry.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
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There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
Scripture Passages
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
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.
But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is their help and their shield.
He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
And they shall no more offer their sacrifices to idols, with which they have committed idolatry: This shall be a statute for ever to them throughout their generations.
And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people will rise up, and commit idolatry with the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go [to be] among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.
But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit idolatry, like the idolatries of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, [who were] better than thyself:
Now, while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; lewdness, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,