Quotes About Worship

The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,

Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,

You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.

And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.

if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.

Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.

Then the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.

And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.

When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.

So that very day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites.

he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD:

Then Moses recited aloud to the whole assembly of Israel the words of this song from beginning to end:

For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!

The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.

They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.

They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.