40 Bible Verses about statues
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Ye shall make you no idols, nor graven image, neither rear you up any pillar, neither ye shall set up any image of stone in your land to bow yourselves thereto: for I am the LORD your God;
"'If ye shall walk in mine ordinances and keep my commandments and do them,
Thine Idols and thine Images will I destroy out of thee so that thou shalt no more bow thyself unto the works of thine own hands.
And he had power to give a spirit unto the image of the beast, and that the image of the beast should speak, and should cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast, should be killed.
These are the commandments, ordinances and laws which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
for I am the LORD your God. But walk in my statutes; keep my laws and do them;
And the ordinances, customs, law and commandment which I wrote for you, see that ye be diligent to do for evermore, and fear not any other gods.
The law of the LORD is an undefiled law, converting the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, and giveth wisdom unto simple.
And Rachel took the images, and put them in the camel's straw, and sat down upon them. And Laban searched all the tent: but found them not.
Overthrow their altars and break their pillars and burn their groves with fire and hew down the images of their gods, and bring the names of them to nought out of that place.
and there ye shall serve gods which are the works of man's hand: wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
Yea, and what nation is so great that hath ordinances and laws so righteous, as all this law which I set before you this day?
The image head was of fine gold, his breast and arms of silver, his body and loins were of copper,
Their images are but silver and gold, even the work of men's hands.
But see that ye keep the commandments of the LORD your God, his witnesses and his ordinances which he hath commanded thee,
"Thou shalt make thee no graven image, neither any similitude that is in heaven above, either in the earth beneath, or in the water that is beneath the earth.
And when they were up early in the next morning behold, Dagon lay groveling upon the ground before the ark of the LORD, and his head and his two hands cut off upon the threshold, that the body only was left on him.
And Lot's wife looked behind her, and was turned in to a pillar of salt.
The statutes of the LORD are right, and rejoice the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, and giveth light unto the eyes.
because that Abraham hearkened unto my voice and kept mine ordinances, commandments, statutes and laws."
{He} Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes, and I shall keep it unto the end.
For Ezra prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach the precept and judgment in Israel.
Thou beheldest it till a stone was cut without hands, which smote the image upon the feet that were both of iron and earth, and brake them to powder.
Nay, but I say, that these things which the gentiles offer, they offer to devils, and not to God. And I would not that ye should have fellowship with the devils.
see thou worship not their gods neither serve them, neither do after the works of them, but overthrow them and break down the places of them.
Wherefore I gave them also commandments that were not good, and laws through the which they should not live,
and cast their gods in the fire. Notwithstanding, those were no gods; but the works of men's hands, of wood or stone, therefore have they destroyed them.
They that make them, are like unto them; and so are all such as put their trust in them.
But unto the ungodly sayeth God, "Why dost thou preach my laws, and takest my covenant in thy mouth,
It standeth as stiff as the palm tree, it can neither speak nor go, but must be borne. Be not ye afraid of such, for they can do neither good nor evil."
Moreover, I said unto their sons in the wilderness, 'Walk not in the statutes of your forefathers; keep not their ordinances, and defile not yourselves with their idols,
To speak of meat dedicated unto idols, we are sure that there is none idol in the world: and that there is none other God but one.
Ye know that ye were gentiles, and went your ways unto dumb idols, even as ye were led.
that thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his ordinances and his commandments which I command thee; both thou and thy son and thy son's son all days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged.
Ye keep the ordinances of Omri, and all the customs of the house of Ahab: Ye follow their pleasures, therefore will I make thee waste, and cause thy inhabiters to be abhorred, O my people: and thus shalt thou bear thine own shame.
