Thematic Bible: Idols characterized, as
Thematic Bible
false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Vanity of
A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
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but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house 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 brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
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Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
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They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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"What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
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They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."
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Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
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What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
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false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Degrading
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
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Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
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false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Helpless
"Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.
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They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."
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Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
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false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Insentiate
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
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There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
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false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Perishable
He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.
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false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Unworthy of worship of intelligent beings
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
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FALSE » Idols characterized, as » Vanity of
A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
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but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house 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 brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
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Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
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They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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"What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
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They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."
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Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
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What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
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FALSE » Idols characterized, as » Degrading
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
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Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
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FALSE » Idols characterized, as » Insentiate
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
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There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
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FALSE » Idols characterized, as » Perishable
He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.
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FALSE » Idols characterized, as » Unworthy of worship of intelligent beings
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
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