50 Bible Verses Against Idolatry

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50 Bible Verses Against Idolatry

50 Verses About Against Idolatry.

01| Exodus 20:3-4

“You shall have no other gods before Me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—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.

02| Leviticus 26:1

‘You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the Lord your God.

03| Leviticus 19:4

 ‘Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molded gods: I am the Lord your God.

04| Deuteronomy 4:16

 Lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or female.

05| Isaiah 42:8

I am the Lord, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to carved images.

06| Exodus 20:23

You shall not make anything to be with Me—gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

07| Exodus 34:14

For you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

08| Psalm 115:4-8; Psalm 135:15-18

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they do not speak eyes they have, but they do not see; they have ears, but they do not hear; noses they have, but they do not smell; they have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they mutter through their throat. Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.

09| Psalm 97:7

Let all be put to shame who serve carved images, who boast of idols. Worship Him, all you gods.

10| Exodus 23:13

And in all that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth.

11| Exodus 34:17

“You shall make no moulded gods for yourselves.

12| Jonah 2:8

Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own Mercy.

13| 1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.

14| Isaiah 45:20

“Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. They have no knowledge, who carry the wood of their carved image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

15| Psalm 16:4

Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god; their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take up their names on my lips.

16| Hosea 13:4

“Yet I am the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt, and you shall know no God but Me; for there is no Saviour besides Me.

17| Jeremiah 10:3-5

For the customs of the peoples are futile; for one cuts a tree from the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with nails and hammers so that it will not topple. They are upright, like a palm tree, and they cannot speak; they must be carried, because they cannot go by themselves. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, nor can they do any good.”

18| Psalm 115:1-18

Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to Your name give glory, because of Your mercy, because of Your truth.Why should the Gentiles say, “So where is their God?” But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see.

19| Psalm 96:5

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the Lord made the heavens.

20| Joshua 24:15

And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

21| Deuteronomy 27:15

‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or moulded image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ “And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen!’

22| Deuteronomy 13:4

You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.

23| Deuteronomy 5:9

You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.

24| Deuteronomy 4:39

Therefore, know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.  

25| Isaiah 40:19

The workman moulds an image, the goldsmith overspreads it with gold, and the silversmith casts silver chains.

26| Isaiah 37:19

And have cast their gods into the fire; for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands—wood and stone. Therefore, they destroyed them.

27| Isaiah 42:17

They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, who trust in carved images, who say to the moulded images, ‘You are our gods.’

28| Exodus 32:1

Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

29| 1 John 5:21

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

30| Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

31| 1 Corinthians 10:14

 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

32| Revelation 9:20

But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.  

33| John 4:23

 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.

34| Habakkuk 2:18

“What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it, the moulded image, a teacher of lies, that the maker of its mould should trust in it, to make mute idols?

35| 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

36| Ephesians 5:5

 For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

37| Acts 15:29

That you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well.

38| 1 Corinthians 10:7

And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

39| Colossians 2:8

Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

40| Colossians 2:18

 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.

41| Galatians 5:19-21

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,  envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

42| Ephesians 5:11-12

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

43| 1 Thessalonians 1:9

 For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.

44| Colossians 3:2

Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

45| 2 Corinthians 6:16

And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”

46| Romans 1:21-23

Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

47| 2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan.

48| Isaiah 31:7

For in that day every man shall throw away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin, which your own hands have made for yourselves.

49| Isaiah 30:22

You will also defile the covering of your images of silver, and the ornament of your molded images of gold. You will throw them away as an unclean thing; You will say to them, “Get away!”

50| Isaiah 2:20-22

In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold,
which they made, each for himself to worship, to the moles and bats, to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the crags of the rugged rocks, from the terror of the Lord and the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth mightily.

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