GOD, THE BIBLE AND IDOLATRY

     Idolatry was is and will forever be a sin. But there is much more to idolatry than simply worshipping idols.

Genesis 35:2--And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.

Exodus 20:3-6--“You shall have no other gods before Me. 4 “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; 5 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, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

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. 

Exodus 23:24--You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.

Exodus 34:17--“You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.

Leviticus 19:4--‘Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molded gods: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 26:1--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.

Deuteronomy 12:1--“These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth. 2 You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3 And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place. 4 You shall not worship the LORD your God with such things.
 

Deuteronomy 17:2-5--“If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing His covenant, 3 who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded, 4 and it is told you, and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel, 5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked thing, and shall stone to death that man or woman with stones.

Deuteronomy 7:5-6--But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire. 26 Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is an accursed thing.

Deuteronomy 7:25--You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

Numbers 33:52--then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places;

Psalm 97:7--Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

Isaiah 2:20--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,

Isaiah 17:7--In that day a man will look to his Maker,
       And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

       8 He will not look to the altars,
      The work of his hands;
       He will not respect what his fingers have made,
       Nor the wooden images nor the incense altars.

2 Chronicles 24:18--And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
 

Acts 17:16--Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

1 Corinthians 10:14--Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

Galatians 5:20--Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Colossians 3:5--Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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