Thematic Bible: They who practice
Thematic Bible
Idolatry » They who practice » Provoke God
a people who provoke me to my face continually as they sacrifice in gardens and burn incense on bricks;
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
and do not go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and do not provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no harm.
Idolatry » They who practice » Forget God
For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;
It shall be, if you shall forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
Idolatry » They who practice » Forsake God
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.'"
Then you shall tell them, 'Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
Idolatry » They who practice » Look to idols for deliverance
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.
The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, "Deliver me; for you are my god."
Idolatry » They who practice » Hate God
Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath is on you from before the LORD. Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."
Idolatry » They who practice » Carried away by it
You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
Idolatry » They who practice » Are ignorant and foolish
Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but their thinking became nonsense, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Idolatry » They who practice » Are mad upon it
A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they glory over idols.
Idolatry » They who practice » Pollute the name of God
"'As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD: "Go, serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.
Idolatry » They who practice » Go after it in heart
because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Idolatry » They who practice » Go astray from God
But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.
Idolatry » They who practice » Defile the sanctuary of God
"'Therefore as I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.
Idolatry » They who practice » Are estranged from God
that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols."'
Idolatry » They who practice » Hold fast their deceit
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Idolatry » They who practice » Are vain in their imaginations
Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but their thinking became nonsense, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Idolatry » They who practice » Inflame themselves
you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Idolatry » They who practice » Have fellowship with devils
My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
Idolatry » They who practice » Ask counsel of their idols
My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
Idolatry » They who practice » Boast of it
Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods.
Idolatry » They who practice » Swear by their idols
Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, 'As your god, Dan, lives;' and, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;' they will fall, and never rise up again."