Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
Do evil
Bible References
Speak
1 Corinthians 12:2
when you were Gentiles, you know how you were seduced by your leaders, to the worship of dumb idols.
Revelation 13:14
and he deceived the inhabitants of the earth, by the prodigys which he had power to effect by the influence of the beast, by telling the inhabitants of the earth, that he had made an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, but yet did revive.
Do evil
1 Corinthians 8:4
As to the eating therefore of what is offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that the heathen deities have no real existence, and that there is but one God.