16 Bible Verses about False Worship

Most Relevant Verses

Matthew 15:8-9

This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

Mark 7:6-7

And responding He said to them, Beautifully did Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as has been written, This people honor me with lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Matthew 6:5

And when you pray, be not like the hypocrites: because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, in order that they may appear unto the people. Truly I say unto you, They exhaust their reward.

Luke 18:10-14

Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee standing was praying in these words, God, I thank thee because I am not like the rest of the men, extortioners, unjust, adulterous, or even as this publican: I fast twice per week; I give tithes of all things so many as I possess.read more.
But the publican, standing a great way off, did not wish even to lift up his eyes to the heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me the sinner. I say unto you, He went down to his house justified rather than the other: because every one exalting himself shall be abased; and the one humbling himself shall be exalted.

Acts 17:22-23

And Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said, Athenian men, I perceive that in all things you are very religious. For going through, and seeing your devotions, I also found an altar on which it was superscribed, To THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore I now preach unto you Him whom you are ignorantly worshiping.

Mark 12:41-44

And He sitting in front of the treasury, was seeing how the multitudes are casting their money into the treasury. And many rich people were casting in much. And one poor widow was casting in two mites, which is a farthing. And calling His disciples to Him, He says to them, Truly I say unto you, That this poor widow has cast in more than all those casting into the treasury.read more.
For all they of that which abounds unto them cast in; but she of her scarcity cast in all things so many as she had, all her living.

John 4:23-24

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such worshiping Him. God is a Spirit, and it behooveth those who worship Him to worship in spirit and in truth.

Bible Theasaurus

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false Worship » Other objects of worship » Heavenly bodies

false Worship » Idolatry » Forbidden

false Worship » False gods and Goddesses » General references to

false Worship » Other objects of worship » Devils worshipped

Revelation 9:20

And the rest of the men who were not slain by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood; which are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk:

false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Vanity of

Acts 17:29

Then being the offspring of God, we ought not to think that divinity is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, the invention of art and the device of man.

false Worship » Brazen serpent places devoted to idolatry » Idolatrous temples

Acts 19:27

And not only is this interest in danger to us to come into disrepute; but even the temple of the great goddess Diana to be considered for nought, and they are about even to despise the majesty of her, whom all Asia and the world worships.

false Worship » Other objects of worship » The golden calves of jeroboam, set up in dan and bethel

More verses: 1 Kings 12:28

false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Ashtaroth » Ashtaroth or ashtoreth, a Goddess of the phoenicians

More verses: 1 Samuel 31:10

false Worship » Other objects of worship » Teraphim, images, household gods

More verses: Hosea 3:4

false Worship » Brazen serpent places devoted to idolatry » Idolatrous altars

More verses: Acts 17:23

false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Baal-peor » Baal-peor, a God of the moabites

false Worship » Other objects of worship » The golden calf made by aaron

Acts 7:41

And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites

Acts 7:43

And ye took up the shrine of Moloch, and the star of the god Remphan, images which you made to worship them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.

false Worship » Idolatry » Prophecies concerning the overthrow of

false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Chemosh » Chemosh, a God of the moabites

false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Degrading

Romans 1:22-23

Saying that they were wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the invisible God into the similitude of the likeness of corruptible man, and of birds, and of quadrupeds, and of creeping things.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God except one.

false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Dagon » Dagon, a God of the philistines

false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Helpless

Acts 14:18

And speaking these things they scarcely restrained the multitude from offering sacrifices to them.

false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Diana » Diana, a Goddess of the ephesians

Acts 19:24

For a certain Demetrius by name, a silversmith, making silver shrines of Diana, was bringing no small gain to the mechanics,

Acts 19:35

And the city clerk having dismissed the multitudes, said, Ephesian men, for what one of men is there that does not know that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great goddess Diana, and of the statue having fallen down from Jupiter?

Acts 19:28

And hearing and being filled with rage, they continued to cry out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

false Worship » Other objects of worship » Men deified and worshipped

Acts 12:22

and the people shouted, It is the voice of God and not of man.

Acts 14:11

And the multitudes seeing what Paul did, lifted up their voice, in Lycaonic, saying, The gods having assumed the likeness of men have come down to us:

Acts 28:6

and they were looking for him to be about to swell up and suddenly fall down dead. But having looked a long time, and seeing nothing out of place come to him, changing their minds, they said that he was a god.

false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Insentiate

false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Perishable

false Worship » Idols characterized, as » Unworthy of worship of intelligent beings

Acts 17:29

Then being the offspring of God, we ought not to think that divinity is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, the invention of art and the device of man.

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