10 Bible Verses about Useless Idols

Most Relevant Verses

1 Samuel 12:21

Don’t turn away to follow worthless things that can’t profit or deliver you; they are worthless.

Jonah 2:8

Those who cling to worthless idols
forsake faithful love,

Isaiah 44:10

Who makes a god or casts a metal image
for no profit?

Jeremiah 10:15

They are worthless, a work to be mocked.
At the time of their punishment
they will be destroyed.

Jeremiah 51:18

They are worthless, a work to be mocked.
At the time of their punishment they will be destroyed.

1 Corinthians 8:4

About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Isaiah 41:24

Look, you are nothing
and your work is worthless.
Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

Hosea 12:11

Since Gilead is full of evil,
they will certainly come to nothing.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;
even their altars will be like heaps of rocks
on the furrows of a field.

Habakkuk 2:18

What use is a carved idol
after its craftsman carves it?
It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies.
For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it
and makes idols that cannot speak.

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