Thematic Bible: Idols characterized, as
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false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Vanity of
A drought against her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols.
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but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
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Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
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They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
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"What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!
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Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good."
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Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.
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What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
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false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Degrading
Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.
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Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one."
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false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Helpless
"Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.
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Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good."
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Even with these words they scarcely restrained the people from offering sacrifice to them.
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false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Insentiate
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
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And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
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false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Perishable
He who is too impoverished for an offering chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an idol that will not move.
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false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Unworthy of worship of intelligent beings
Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
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FALSE » Idols characterized, as » Vanity of
A drought against her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols.
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but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
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Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
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They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
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"What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!
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Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good."
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Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.
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What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
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FALSE » Idols characterized, as » Degrading
Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.
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Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one."
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FALSE » Idols characterized, as » Insentiate
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
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And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
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FALSE » Idols characterized, as » Perishable
He who is too impoverished for an offering chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an idol that will not move.
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FALSE » Idols characterized, as » Unworthy of worship of intelligent beings
Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
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