73 Bible Verses about Idols
Want to know what the Bible says about Idols? Here are 73 Bible verses about Idols 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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1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NIV
19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
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Revelation 2:14 NIV
Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality.
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Colossians 2:18 NIV
Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.
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Isaiah 2:8 NIV
Their land is full of idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their fingers have made.
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their fingers have made.
10
1 Samuel 15:23 NIV
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.”
and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
he has rejected you as king.”
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Isaiah 40:20 NIV
A person too poor to present such an offering
selects wood that will not rot;
they look for a skilled worker
to set up an idol that will not topple.
selects wood that will not rot;
they look for a skilled worker
to set up an idol that will not topple.
10
Ephesians 5:5 NIV
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater —has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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Acts 15:20 NIV
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 blood.
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Acts 19:24 NIV
A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought in a lot of business for the craftsmen there.
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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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