Written by Pastor Jack WellmanTop 20 Bible Verses About Idolatry
The significance God puts upon idolatry it is shown by the fact that the first of the Ten Commandments refers to idolatry! There are many examples in the Bible of how God feels about idolatry. Here are our top 20 verses about idolatry for you to study.
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For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.”
- 1 Samuel 15:23
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“He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig’s blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;
- Isaiah 66:3
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For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?
- 1 Corinthians 8:10
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idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
- Galatians 5:20
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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.”
- Jeremiah 10:5
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“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
- Ezekiel 14:6
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for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.
- 1 Kings 16:13
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For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house.
- Ezekiel 23:39
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You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.
- Ezekiel 22:4
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In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,
- Isaiah 2:20
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And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.
- Deuteronomy 29:17
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Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, declares the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their punishment.
- Ezekiel 44:12
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And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.
- 2 Chronicles 33:15
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“And on that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.
- Zechariah 13:2
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and they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, “You shall not do this.”
- 2 Kings 17:12
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For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
- Psalm 96:5
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then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
- Ezekiel 6:9
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I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.
- Isaiah 42:8
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Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
- Colossians 3:5
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For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
- Ephesians 5:5
We hope these verses shed some light on idolatry and that you have a better understanding of what idolatry is. Don’t forget to share this page and visit another one of our pages!
