- “You shall have no other gods before me.” – Exodus 20:3
“You shall have no other gods before me.”
- “Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.” – Leviticus 19:4
“Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.”
- “They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.” – Deuteronomy 32:16
“They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.”
- “For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens.” – Psalm 96:5
“For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens.”
- “Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.” – Isaiah 2:8
“Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.”
- “What then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?” – Job 31:14
“What then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?”
- “Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.” – Psalm 115:4
“Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.”
- “Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.” – Psalm 115:8
“Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.”
- “But they are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!” – Jeremiah 10:8
“But they are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!”
- “Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.” – Luke 17:3
“Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.”
- “Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the Lord alone, shall be devoted to destruction.” – Exodus 22:20
“Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the Lord alone, shall be devoted to destruction.”
- “And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, ‘Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!'” – Hosea 13:2
“And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, ‘Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!'”
- “You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.” – Exodus 20:23
“You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.”
- “Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.” – 1 Corinthians 10:14
“Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.”
- “But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?” – Acts 7:42
“But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?”
- “And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the Lord to anger.” – Judges 2:12
“And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the Lord to anger.”
- “For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,” – 1 Thessalonians 1:9
“For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,”
- “But turned away and stiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God.” – 2 Kings 17:14
“But turned away and stiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God.”
- “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” – Exodus 20:4
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.”
- “Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: ‘I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.” – Isaiah 44:6
“Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: ‘I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.”
- “I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.” – Isaiah 42:8
“I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.”
- “And those who bow down on the housetops to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the Lord and yet swear by Milcom,” – Zephaniah 1:5
“And those who bow down on the housetops to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the Lord and yet swear by Milcom,”
- “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.” – Romans 1:21
“For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.”
- “The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.” – Deuteronomy 7:25
“The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.”
- “And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.” – 1 John 5:20
“And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.”
- “For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens.” – Psalm 96:5
“For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens.”
- “You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.” – Deuteronomy 12:31
“You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.”
- “And they abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.” – Judges 2:13
“And they abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.”
- “And all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.” – Exodus 12:12
“And all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.”
- “And those who bow down on the housetops to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the Lord and yet swear by Milcom,” – Zephaniah 1:5
“And those who bow down on the housetops to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the Lord and yet swear by Milcom,”
These verses emphasize the exclusivity of worshiping the true God and warn against the dangers of idolatry and worshiping false gods