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What Does the Bible Say About Idolatry?

100 Bible Verses About God’s Commandments Against Making Idols

Exodus 20:3
“You shall have no other gods before me.”

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.”

Leviticus 19:4
“Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.”

Leviticus 26:1
“You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.”

Exodus 34:17
“You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.”

Exodus 23:13
“Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.”

1 John 5:21
“Little children, keep yourselves from idols.”

1 Corinthians 10:14
“Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.”

Acts 15:29
“That you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Colossians 3:5
“Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.”

Warnings About Idols and Their Makers

Psalm 135:15-17
“The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; they have eyes, but do not see; they have ears, but do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths.”

Psalm 115:4-8
“Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see. They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell. They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat. Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.”

Psalm 115:4-7
“Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see. They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell. They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat.”

Psalm 96:5
“For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens.”

Isaiah 44:9-12
“All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame. Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing? Behold, all his companions shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are only human. Let them all assemble, let them stand forth. They shall be terrified; they shall be put to shame together. The ironsmith takes a cutting tool and works it over the coals. He fashions it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. He becomes hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint.”

Isaiah 44:13-19
“The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house… Also he makes a god and worships it; he makes it an idol and falls down before it. Half of it he burns in the fire. Over the half he eats meat; he roasts it and is satisfied. Also he warms himself and says, ‘Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire!’ And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. He prays to it and says, ‘Deliver me, for you are my god!’”

Isaiah 44:17
“And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. He prays to it and says, ‘Deliver me, for you are my god!’”

Isaiah 37:19
“And have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.”

2 Kings 19:18
“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 were destroyed.”

Isaiah 40:19
“An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.”

Habakkuk 2:18
“What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!”

Examples and Additional Teachings

Jonah 2:8
“Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.”

Hebrews 13:5
“Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’”

Romans 1:21-23
“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. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.”

Ezekiel 20:32
“What is in your mind shall never happen—the thought, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.’”

Colossians 2:
“See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.”

1 John 4:1
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.”

Acts 19:25
“These he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, ‘Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth.’”

1 Kings 18:25-29
“Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, ‘Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you are many, and call upon the name of your god, but put no fire to it.’… And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, ‘Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.’ … No one answered; no one paid attention.”

Isaiah 30:22
“Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, ‘Be gone!’”

1 Chronicles 16:26
“For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the Lord made the heavens.”

Isaiah 31:

For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.

Matthew 6:33  

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Isaiah 42:8 

I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.

Isaiah 2:20 

In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

Luke 12:34 

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Luke 9:25 

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?