10 Bible Verses about Useless Idols

Most Relevant Verses

1 Samuel 12:21

You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile.

Jonah 2:8

“Those who regard vain idols
Forsake their faithfulness,

Isaiah 44:10

Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?

Jeremiah 10:15

They are worthless, a work of mockery;
In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Jeremiah 51:18

They are worthless, a work of mockery;
In the time of their punishment they will perish.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Isaiah 41:24

Behold, you are of no account,
And your work amounts to nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination.

Hosea 12:11

Is there iniquity in Gilead?
Surely they are worthless.
In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls,
Yes, their altars are like the stone heaps
Beside the furrows of the field.

Habakkuk 2:18

“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.

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