39 Bible Verses about statues
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Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.
And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.
And he had power to give breath to the image of the beast, so that words might come from the image of the beast, and that he might have all those who did not give worship to the image of the beast put to death.
He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.
Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:
I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:
And the rules and the orders and the law which he put in writing for you, you are to keep and do for ever; you are to have no other gods.
I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.
The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.
Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come across them.
Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.
There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.
And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?
As for this image, its head was made of the best gold, its breast and its arms were of silver, its middle and its sides were of brass,
Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;
You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
And when they got up early on the morning after, Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord; and his head and his hands were broken off on the doorstep; only the base was in its place.
The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.
O Lord, let me see the way of your rules, and I will keep it to the end.
For Ezra had given his mind to learning the law of the Lord and doing it, and to teaching his rules and decisions in Israel.
While you were looking at it, a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it gave the image a blow on its feet, which were of iron and earth, and they were broken in bits.
What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits.
Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.
And further, I gave them rules which were not good and orders in which there was no life for them;
And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.
It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.
Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.
And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:
So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.
So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.
For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.