Bible Verses about “idol worship”
The Bible contains 25 verses about idol worship across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
“Thou shalt not kill.”
“¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:”
“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;”
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:”
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
“Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
“For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.”
“Thou shalt not steal.”
“But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates:”
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”
“Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:”
“And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”
“I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”
“¶ And God spake all these words, saying,”
“¶ Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up [any] image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I [am] the LORD your God.”
“Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.”
“Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands.”
“They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:”
“They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:”
“They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.”
“They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.”
“Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.”
“Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I [am] the LORD your God.”