40 Bible Verses about statues
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Ye shall make for you no idols. Neither shall ye rear up for you a graven image, or a pillar. Neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it. For I am LORD your God.
And I will cut off thy graven images and thy pillars out of the midst of thee, and thou shall no more worship the work of thy hands.
And it was given it, to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would both speak, and would make as many as would not ever worship the image of the beast be killed.
Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land where ye go over to possess it,
I am LORD your God. Walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them,
And the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore. And ye shall not fear other gods.
The law of LORD is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of LORD is sure, making a simple man wise.
Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt around all the tent, but did not find them.
And ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire. And ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and ye shall destroy their name out of that place.
And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
And what great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded thee.
Thou shall not make to thee a graven image, nor any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
And when they arose early on the morning of the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of LORD, and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [lay] cut off upon the threshold. Only [the
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
The precepts of LORD are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my order, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes, and I shall keep it to the end.
For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.
Thou looked until a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
Rather, that which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partakers of demons.
Thou shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works, but thou shall utterly overthrow them, and break their pillars in pieces.
Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they will not live.
and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.
Those who make them shall be like them. Yea, everyone who trusts in them.
But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth,
They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and do not speak. They must be carried, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, nor is it in them to do good.
And I said to their sons in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers. Neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.
Ye know that, while Gentiles, ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols, as ye were led.
that thou might fear LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life, and that thy days may be prolonged.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels, that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing. And ye shall bear the reproach of my people.