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
Ye know that ye were Gentiles, drawn aside after dumb idols, just as ye were led: wherefore,
Revelation 13:14
by the signs which it was given him to do in the presence of the beast, telling the inhabitants of the earth to make an image to the beast, that had received the wound of the sword, and yet lived.
Do evil
1 Corinthians 8:4
As to the eating therefore of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.