13 Bible Verses about How Not To Worship
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and they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'"
And they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'
Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, "[Is it] true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, [that] you are not serving my god, and [you are] not worshiping the statue of gold that I have set up?
[However] there are Judean men whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon--Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego--these men, O king, {pay you no heed} [and] [were] not serving your god, and the statue of gold that you set up they are not worshiping."
Nebuchadnezzar {responded}, saying, "Blessed be their God, [the God] of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who sent his angel and rescued his servants who trusted in him, and the command of the king they disobeyed, and they gave their bodies so that they [did] not serve and [did] not worship any god except their God.
And {whoever} does not fall down and worship will be thrown {immediately} into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire."
{And whoever} {does not fall down} and worship shall be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.
When I called them, they went from my face. They sacrificed to the Baals, and they sacrificed to idols.
" 'You will not bow to their gods, and you will not serve them, and you will not act according to their actions, because you will utterly demolish them, and you will utterly break their stone pillars.
For you will not bow in worship to another god, for 'Yahweh [Is] Jealous' is his name, he [is] a jealous God,
You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
For [as I] was passing through and observing carefully your objects of worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, 'To an unknown God.' Therefore what you worship without knowing [it], this I proclaim to you--
saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law!"