'Images' in the Bible

But I had not in mind the sinners who are outside the church, or those who have a desire for and take the property of others, or those who give worship to images; for it is not possible to keep away from such people without going out of the world completely:

Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.

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.

For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?

Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?

You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.