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Want to know what the Bible says about Idolatry? Here are 483 Bible verses about Idolatry from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Ezekiel 7:19 NIV
“‘They will throw their silver into the streets,
    and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean.
Their silver and gold
    will not be able to deliver them
    in the day of the Lord’s wrath.
It will not satisfy their hunger
    or fill their stomachs,
    for it has caused them to stumble into sin.
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2 Kings 23:13 NIV
The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption—the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the people of Ammon.
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Ezekiel 23:39 NIV
On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated it. That is what they did in my house.
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1 Corinthians 8:4 NIV
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.”
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1 Kings 11:7 NIV
On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites.
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Ezekiel 23:37 NIV
for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.
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Deuteronomy 4:15-16 NIV
15 You saw no form of any kind the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, 16 so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman,
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Jeremiah 10:8 NIV
They are all senseless and foolish;
    they are taught by worthless wooden idols.
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Jeremiah 48:13 NIV
Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh,
    as Israel was ashamed
    when they trusted in Bethel.
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Revelation 9:21 NIV
Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
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