13 Bible Verses about How Not To Worship

‘But in vain do they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’”

‘But in vain do they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’

Nebuchadnezzar responded and said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up?

There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon, namely Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. These men, O king, have disregarded you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”

Nebuchadnezzar responded and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who put their trust in Him, violating the king’s command, and yielded up their bodies so as not to serve or worship any god except their own God.

But whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire.”

But whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire.

The more they called them,
The more they went from them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to idols.

You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their sacred pillars in pieces.

—for you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.

saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”