10 Bible Verses about Useless Idols
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Don't turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or deliver because they're useless.
Those who cling to vain idols leave behind the gracious love that could have been theirs.
Who would shape a god or cast an image that profits nothing?
They're worthless, a work of mockery, and when the time of punishment comes, they'll perish.
They're worthless, a work of mockery, and when the time of punishment comes, they'll perish.
Now concerning eating food offered to idols: We know that no idol is real in this world and that there is only one God.
"Look! You and your work are less than nothing; whoever finds you pleasing is disgusting."
"There's iniquity in Gilead, isn't there? They have become truly vain. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; their altars are like piles of stone in furrowed fields.
"Where is the benefit in owning a carved image, that motivates its maker to carve it? It is only a cast image a teacher that lies because the engraver entrusts himself to his carving, crafting speechless idols.
"Men, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings with natures like yours. We are telling you the good news so you'll turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.
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