40 Bible Verses about statues

"You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.

"If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,

and I will cut off your carved images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands;

And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.

He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel.

"Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,

I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules,

And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,

I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;

Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.

You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.

And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?

They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.

Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon.

The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze,

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

"You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.

But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;

because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I will keep it to the end.

For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.

As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.

you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.

Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life,

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 were destroyed.

Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.

But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?

Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good."

Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.

"And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one."

You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.

that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.

For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people."