Bible Verses about “native spirituality”

“There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,”

“or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.”

“For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.”

“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.”

“When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.”

“For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.”

“He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,”

“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.”

“For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.”

“They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.”

“Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.”

“because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.”

“The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.”

“in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)”

“yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.”

“(for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,”

“The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,”

“They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."”

“You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.”

“Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.”

“that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.”

“For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.”

“take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise."”

“For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"”

“The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house.”

“neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.”

“'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'”

“The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, "Deliver me; for you are my god!"”

“No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?"”

“When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;”

“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.”

“They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.”

“He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?"”

“Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.”

“Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?”

“Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together.”

“The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.”

“He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.”

“He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself, and says, "Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire."”

“Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge.”

“There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.”

“Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,”

“For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.”

“Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.”

“I am Yahweh, and there is none else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me;”

“Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."”

“"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;”

“who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.”