Bible Verses about “graven images”
The Bible contains 35 verses about graven images across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."”
“"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”
“"You shall not murder.”
“you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,”
“"You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:”
“"You shall have no other gods before me.”
“"You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.”
“"You shall not commit adultery.”
“for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.”
“and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.”
“"You shall not steal.”
“but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;”
“"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”
“"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.”
“"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."”
“You shall labor six days, and do all your work,”
“and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.”
“"I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”
“If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.”
“God spoke all these words, saying,”
“Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'”
“You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.”
“You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.”
“All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.”
“They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."”
“Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."”
“The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.”
“Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.”
“"'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God.”
“"I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.”
“Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it, and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.”
“Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.”
“Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,”
“the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,”
“the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;”