'Idols' in the Bible

but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things.Farewell.

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was troubled within him when he saw that the city was full of idols.

With regard to the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter containing our decision that they should keep themselves from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”

You who say, “You must not commit adultery”—do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob their temples?

About food offered to idols: We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge inflates with pride, but love builds up.

About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

For if someone sees you, the one who has this knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged to eat food offered to idols?

What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak.

And what agreement does God’s sanctuary have with idols? For we are the sanctuary of the living God, as God said:I will dwell among themand walk among them,and I will be their God,and they will be My people.

for they themselves report what kind of reception we had from you: how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives My slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.

The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands to stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which are not able to see, hear, or walk.