Bible Verses About Idols

Bible verses about idols warn us against the temptation to place anything above God in our hearts and lives. Idolatry is not limited to physical statues. It can include anything that takes priority over our relationship with Him, whether it’s wealth, power, or even personal desires. These scriptures call us to examine our hearts and turn away from anything that diverts our worship. By reflecting on these verses, we are reminded of God’s rightful place in our lives and His call to worship Him alone.

Bible Verses About Idols

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

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

Deuteronomy 5:7 – “You shall have no other gods before me.”

Deuteronomy 6:14 – “Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you;”

Deuteronomy 7:25 – “The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.”

Deuteronomy 27:15 – “Cursed is anyone who makes an idol—a thing detestable to the Lord, the work of skilled hands—and sets it up in secret.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

1 Samuel 15:23 – “For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king.”

1 Kings 11:5 – “He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites.”

1 Kings 16:13 – “Baal, the idols of the Sidonians, and the detestable things that he did.”

2 Kings 17:16 – “They forsook all the commands of the Lord their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts, and they worshiped Baal.”

2 Kings 21:6 – “He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger.”

2 Chronicles 33:3 – “He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had demolished; he also erected altars to the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.”

Isaiah 2:8 – “Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.”

Isaiah 44:9 – “All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless; those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame.”

Isaiah 44:17 – “From the rest he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships. He prays to it and says, ‘Save me! You are my god!'”

Isaiah 46:6 – “Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales; they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god, and they bow down and worship it.”

Jeremiah 2:27 – “They say to wood, ‘You are my father,’ and to stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’”

Jeremiah 10:3 – “Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good.”

Jeremiah 10:14 – “Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.”

Jeremiah 51:17 – “Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.”

Ezekiel 14:3 – “Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I let them inquire of me at all?”

Ezekiel 14:6 – “‘Therefore say to the people of Israel, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Repent! Turn from your idols and renounce all your detestable practices!”**

Hosea 4:12 – “My people consult a wooden idol, and a diviner’s rod speaks to them. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God.”

Hosea 8:4 – “They set up kings without my consent; they choose princes without my approval. With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction.”

Micah 5:13 – “I will destroy your carved images and your sacred stones from among you; you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands.”

Habakkuk 2:18 – “Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.”

Zechariah 13:2 – ““On that day I will banish the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more,” declares the Lord Almighty. “I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.””

Acts 7:41 – “That was the time they made an idol in the form of a calf; they brought sacrifices to it and held a celebration in honor of what their hands had made.”

Acts 15:20 – “Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from consuming blood.”

1 Corinthians 8:4 – “So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one.”

1 Corinthians 10:19 – “Do I mean then that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?”

1 Corinthians 10:20 – “No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.”

2 Corinthians 6:16 – “What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: ‘I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.’”

Galatians 5:20 – “The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions”

Revelation 9:20 – “The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.”

Revelation 13:14 – “Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.”

Revelation 14:9 – “A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: ‘If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand,”

Revelation 21:8 – “But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Deuteronomy 4:28 – “There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.”

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

Isaiah 44:20 – “He feeds on ashes, a deluded heart misleads him; he cannot save himself, or say, ‘Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?’”

Jeremiah 2:11 – “Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols.”

Jeremiah 5:19 – “‘And when the people ask, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?’ you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.’”

Jeremiah 8:19 – “Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: ‘Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?’ ‘Why have they aroused my anger with their images, with their worthless foreign gods?’”

Jeremiah 10:8 – “They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.”

Jeremiah 50:38 – “A drought on her waters, and they will dry up. For it is a land of idols, idols that will go mad.”

Zephaniah 1:4 – ““I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all who live in Jerusalem. I will destroy every remnant of Baal worship in this place, the very names of the pagan and the idolatrous priests—”

Hosea 13:2 – “Now they sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver, cleverly fashioned images, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of these people, ‘They offer human sacrifices!’ They kiss calf-idols!”

Micah 1:7 – “All her idols will be broken to pieces; all her temple gifts will be burned with fire; I will destroy all her images.”

Zechariah 10:2 – “The idols speak deceit, diviners see visions that lie; they tell dreams that are false, they give comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep oppressed for lack of a shepherd.”

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