10 Bible Verses about Useless Idols
Most Relevant Verses
Don’t turn away to follow worthless things that can’t profit or deliver you; they are worthless.
They are worthless, a work to be mocked.
At the time of their punishment
they will be destroyed.
They are worthless, a work to be mocked.
At the time of their punishment they will be destroyed.
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.”
Look, you are nothing
and your work is worthless.
Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
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.
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.
“Men! Why are you doing these things? We are men also, with the same nature as you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.
Bible Theasaurus
- Useless (77 instances)